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Hello, Django

Part of the Django Basics section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 1 of 23.

Corner Café has a new website, and its home page still shows a placeholder.

Your browser asks a server for a page: that is a request. The server sends the page back: the response. Django is a Python framework for writing that server. This function in menu/views.py answers the home page:

from django.http import HttpResponse


def home(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello from Django!")

A function like this is a view. Django calls it when a request arrives, and the text in the HttpResponse it returns is the page.

Run starts the site beside your code, like python manage.py runserver on a laptop.
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Challenge

Easy

Make the home page say Welcome to Corner Café instead of Hello from Django!.

Press Run: the site beside your code shows your words.

Try it yourself

from django.http import HttpResponse


def home(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello from Django!")

All lessons in Django Basics

1Your First Django Site

Hello, DjangoA Second PageProject lessonHTML From a ViewProject lessonProjects and AppsThe 404 Page

4Layouts and Static Files

Template InheritanceA Title for Every PageProject lessonIncluding a TemplateProject lessonStatic FilesProject lesson

2Dynamic URLs

Path ConvertersA Page for Every DrinkQuery StringsRaising Http404Project lessonNamed URLsProject lesson

5The Café Website

The Full MenuOpening HoursSite Navigation

3Templates

Your First TemplateTemplate VariablesProject lessonLoops in TemplatesConditions in TemplatesTemplate FiltersProject lessonLinks Between Pages

Practice on your own: Django playground