Django’s big sell is that it’s easy. Compared to other open-source (or even proprietary) frameworks for building specialized, database-driven websites, Django makes the core tasks remarkably ...

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

The tutorial covers how to build, run, and verify a Django, Flask or general Python app, as well as debug the app running in a container.

The popular and well-regarded Django framework has been around since 2005. It is compatible with any 2.x Python from 2.4 onward, though 2.7 is recommended. The Django engineers are particularly ...