Hi all, I am learning Django and I have a question about the architecture of Django. I have found the are to options: MVC (Model-View-Controller) MVT (Model-View-Template) In mostly all the (video) tutorials, there is mentioned that Django is based on the MVT architecture. But when I search on d…

<opinion> Don’t get hung up over terminology. Regardless of what name is applied, the intent is to define components within the the system and the features and functions those components provide. An architecture specification such as this is intended to provide guidance, and a common terminology wh…

Hi Ken, Thanks for the response. Wow, this makes it quite more difficult to understand. I going to assume the MVC and MVT are based on users preferences.

Thanks Ken, I think I will find my way regarding this topic during improving my Django skills. :+1:

I’m a total newbie to Django, but the way I see it currently is this. Model = back end View = gets the model instance, and can route to templates which are dependent on the view Controller? Looking like the view to me currently. I’m not sure how to categorize it. The view is the web-browser, th…

This, together with apps, was perhaps the thing the stumped me the most as I started to use Django. Django doesn’t enforce anything. In fact, most of my Django refactoring consist in moving functions from the views to the models (or anywhere else, as most places I can put them would do). The pros …

I won’t deny that the learning curve can be pretty steep. I’ve only been using Django regularly for about 6 years now, and I’m far from proficient in some areas. On the other hand, it is now our go-to tool for any web-app we need to create. That flexibility has allowed our team to deploy applicatio…

The model layer ist the backend where the business logic lives, yes. Django views are combining the data from the backend with the template representation layer and are fulfilling the role controllers have in MVC. And templates in Django do what views do in MVC. Maybe this confusion is just caused b…

Thanks, I’m pretty up to speed on MVC as a design pattern, but when I looked at how Django does it, I got pretty confused with the view layer which acts like a controller. Semantics, perhaps. But I’m used to this sort of logic: View----[request]----->Controller–[response]—>Model–[response]–>Control…

Well, I think concepts like MVC look very harmless in a diagram, but are quite difficult to understand. The model layer handles all of the business logic. But what is business logic? Maybe it’s easier to describe it as “all the stuff that does not depend on how it’s represented”. For example, if you…

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KenWhitesell July 18, 2020, 1:42pm 4

I’ll also add that those two architectural models (MVC and MVT) are only two of many possible architectures for interactive applications. It’s not like a web app is either one or the other.

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