Django Web Development
Ship the whole product yourself. Django gives you the database layer, auth, admin and security defaults — this course teaches you to use them like someone who has run one in production. One framework, one developer, a whole application. Built for fresh IT graduates and working developers alike.
Django's advantage is completeness: batteries included — ORM, migrations, auth, admin, forms, security defaults, templating — one framework, one developer, a whole product. It has been in production for two decades, its conventions are settled, and its skills date far more slowly than frontend framework skills. Two things on this page most courses undersell. First, the admin is a selling point, not a footnote: a production-quality back office generated from your models is something no other framework in our catalogue offers, and it is why Django wins internal-tool and content-driven projects — it gets a real module here.
Second, the contrarian angle worth leaning into: not every application needs a single-page frontend. Django plus modern server-rendered interactivity — HTMX and the framework's own template partials — now delivers SPA-like behaviour, partial page updates and no full reloads, without a separate frontend codebase, a JSON API layer, or client-side state management. In an industry that defaulted to React for everything, this is a genuinely different answer, and for small teams and internal tools it is often the correct one. It gets a dedicated module too. The syllabus also tracks what recent releases changed: a built-in background task framework (taught honestly against a full task queue), template partials, native Content Security Policy support, composite primary keys, and maturing async support.
It is designed for two audiences at once. If you are a fresh IT graduate, Django is the fastest route from working Python to a complete, deployed application. If you are a working professional — a founder or freelancer who wants to ship a complete product alone, a Python developer moving from scripts into applications, or a team maintaining an older Django project planning an LTS upgrade — this course teaches the framework as it is now, including the upgrade path. The program runs 10 weeks (~75 hours), live and build-along, closing with a deployed, secured, monitored capstone defended on architecture.
Django, FastAPI or Next.js? An Honest Decision Rule
- Django Web Development (this course) — the complete web application. Choose it when you're building an application with users, permissions, a database and an internal back office — especially with a small team.
- FastAPI Development — APIs, microservices and AI/ML serving. Minimal, async-first, you assemble the pieces. Choose it when you're serving APIs or models.
- Next.js Development — the same whole-product ambition in the JavaScript ecosystem (with React.js Development as its prerequisite). Choose that stack when the frontend is the product.
Why Learn Django When AI Writes Views?
Same honest answer as our other developer courses: AI generates Django views and models fluently and gets the things that bite wrong — query patterns that trigger N+1 problems, migrations that lock a production table, permission checks in the wrong layer, security defaults quietly disabled. The value is architecture, review, debugging and operational judgment. You'll use AI tooling as an accelerator you review, and you'll learn the failure patterns generated Django code repeats — so you ship its speed without shipping its mistakes.
Course at a Glance
- Duration: 10 weeks | ~75 hours | live + hands-on
- Format: Live online · build-along · deployed applications
- Prerequisite: Working Python and basic HTML/CSS. No web framework or database experience required.
- Curriculum: 10 modules, from architecture to deployment, operations and capstone
- Portfolio: 7 deployed, production-style applications plus a defended capstone
- Curriculum reviewed: July 2026 — recent Django releases changed the framework materially; this syllabus tracks the current line
Course Highlights
- Every module leads with what you build and ship, not what you "learn about"
- The ORM in depth — N+1 kills, zero-downtime migrations, composite keys, reading real queries
- The admin as a production back office — customised, optimised, secured
- SPA-like interactivity without an SPA: HTMX plus template partials, taught honestly
- Background work with judgment: the built-in task framework vs a full queue — the boundary taught
- Security by default — and how people accidentally switch it off; native CSP covered
- LTS and upgrade planning as first-class material for teams on older projects
- AI tooling as an accelerator you review, never a substitute for understanding
Hands-on Projects & Portfolio
Custom user model, roles, permissions and billing hooks.
Built on a heavily customised admin, delivered fast.
HTMX and template partials — no SPA, no separate API.
Search, media handling, caching and SEO-correct rendering.
Authentication, pagination and docs on an existing application.
Find and fix N+1 problems and slow pages with profiling evidence.
On a table with real data volume, without locking production.
Production application, deployed, secured, monitored and defended on architecture.
Tools & Stack
Python Django Django REST Framework HTMX PostgreSQL Redis Celery Alpine.js Tailwind CSS pytest factory_boy Gunicorn Uvicorn Nginx Docker Sentry GitHub Actions AWS Git
Career Outcomes
Django's advantage is completeness and stability — two decades in production, settled conventions, and a single developer able to deliver a full application with authentication, an admin back office and a database layer without assembling a stack from parts. That makes it disproportionately common in startups, agencies, internal tooling, government and content-driven products — and Django skills date far more slowly than frontend framework skills. This course targets:
- Python Web Developer
- Django Developer
- Backend Developer
- Full-Stack Developer
- Software Engineer in product teams
- Technical founder shipping alone
- Freelance/agency developer delivering complete applications
Who This Course Is For
- Final-year students and fresh IT graduates targeting Python or full-stack roles
- Python developers moving from scripts, automation or data work into applications
- Developers who want to ship a complete product alone — founders, freelancers, small teams
- Backend developers from PHP, Java, .NET or Node adding Python web development
- Data scientists and analysts who need a real application around their work
- Teams maintaining older Django projects planning an LTS upgrade — upgrade planning is first-class material here
Material Includes
- Class recordings
- Application starter repos & admin templates
- Deployment checklists & upgrade runbooks
- Certificate
Prerequisites
- Working Python
- Basic HTML/CSS
- No web framework or database experience required
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A running multi-app project with environment-split settings, clean URL routing and a structure that survives growth — the skeleton every later module builds on
- The request/response cycle; apps and project structure that survives growth
- Settings management across environments; URLs and views; modern dependency management
- The design philosophy behind the framework's opinions
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- The query optimisation workshop — N+1 problems found and fixed with evidence — plus a zero-downtime migration executed on a table with real data volume
- Models, fields and relationships; migrations including data migrations and zero-downtime patterns
- Querysets and lazy evaluation; select_related and prefetch_related; aggregation and annotation; transactions; raw SQL escape hatches
- Indexing; composite primary keys; reading the queries your code actually generates
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A content platform slice with forms, validation, file uploads and template partials — with a deliberate call on where generic views help and where they obscure
- Function and class-based views; the generic view hierarchy — when it helps versus when it obscures
- Forms and formsets; validation; file uploads
- The template language; context processors; template partials; static and media file handling
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- An internal back-office tool on a heavily customised admin — inlines, actions, optimised lists — over a custom user model with roles, groups and object-level access
- The user model and customising it before it's too late; sessions and login flows; password management
- Permissions and groups; object-level access
- The admin as a production back office: customisation, inlines, actions, list optimisation — and the security considerations of exposing it at all
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- An interactive dashboard with partial updates, live form validation in fragments and no full reloads — built with HTMX and template partials, no SPA and no separate API
- Modern interactive interfaces without an SPA: HTMX for partial updates, combined with template partials
- Progressive enhancement; handling forms and validation errors in fragments
- An honest account of when this approach is better than a JavaScript frontend — and when it isn't
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- An API layer added to an existing application — authentication, permissions, pagination, filtering, versioning and docs — plus a written toolkit choice including the "use FastAPI instead" option
- When an application needs an API layer; serialisers, viewsets and routers
- Authentication and permissions for APIs; pagination, filtering, versioning and documentation
- The established REST toolkit vs lighter, typed alternatives — and vs choosing FastAPI instead
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A notification and processing pipeline split deliberately: fire-and-forget work on the built-in task framework, scheduled and chained work on a full queue — with the boundary documented
- Async views and async ORM usage and their current limits
- The built-in background task framework — honest scope: fire-and-forget email and webhooks — versus a full task queue for scheduling, chaining, rate limiting and result storage
- Caching strategies; signals and their misuse; scheduled jobs; email and notifications; long-running work that must not block a request
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A security hardening pass on a deliberately weakened app: re-enable the disabled defaults, add CSP, fix upload handling, pass the deployment checklist
- What the framework protects you from by default — and how people accidentally switch it off; CSRF, XSS and SQL injection
- Content Security Policy and where it sits in middleware order; clickjacking and HTTPS settings
- Secrets management; dependency auditing; rate limiting; file upload safety; the deployment checklist
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A fully tested feature — views, models, permissions, query-count assertions — plus a slow page diagnosed and fixed with profiling evidence and a caching layer
- The test framework and pytest; factories and fixtures; testing views, models and permissions; database query assertions
- Coverage that means something; profiling and query optimisation; caching layers; database tuning
- Load testing; diagnosing a slow page with evidence
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- Your capstone: one production-grade application — containerised, statically served, migrated under traffic, logged, monitored, CI/CD-deployed — defended on architecture, plus an LTS upgrade plan
- WSGI and ASGI servers; static and media files in production; containerisation; database migrations under real traffic
- Environment configuration; logging and error tracking; monitoring; scaling patterns; CI/CD
- Upgrade planning across LTS lines — stepwise, not version skipping; capstone design, build, deploy and defense
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