Django

Django is a Python web framework that ships with an ORM, authentication, an admin interface, form handling, and URL routing out of the box. Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison created it at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Kansas; it was open-sourced in 2005 under the BSD license. The framework follows a “batteries included” philosophy — a deliberate contrast to micro-frameworks that require assembling components individually.

Django’s ORM generates SQL from Python model definitions and supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Oracle. Database schema changes are managed through a built-in migration system that tracks model changes and generates migration files automatically. The admin interface, generated from model definitions, provides a functional content management UI without writing any frontend code — a feature that makes Django effective for data-driven applications and rapid prototyping.

The framework follows a time-based release cycle: a new feature release roughly every eight months, with designated long-term support (LTS) releases receiving security updates for at least three years. Django 6.0 is the current release. The official documentation is widely regarded as one of the best in the Python ecosystem — comprehensive, well-organized, and consistently maintained across versions.