Django Apps

• Apps on Django are features/functionalities in the project
• Apps are defined at settings.py in the INSTALLED_APPS variables

Default Apps

• By default the following apps are installed
• django.contrib.admin: admin interface to manage data
• django.contrib.auth: authenticating users
• django.contrib.contenttypes:
• django.contrib.sessions: temporary memory on the server (legacy)
• django.contrib.messages: display one time notifications to the user
• django.contrib.staticfiles: serve static files

App Modules

• Views Module (views.py)
• A view function takes a request and returns a response
• These are the request handler functions (or action)
• URLs Module (urls.py)
• Defines the endpoint path for each event handler
• This exposes a new API in the server
• The URLs from any module must be referenced in the main urls.py module