DJANGO
Django is a web development framework that assists in building and maintaining quality web applications.
Intermédiaire
5
jours
Présentiel, Virtuel
ITTA offers a complete Django course covering the Python web framework: MVT architecture, models and ORM, views and URLs, templates, forms, Django admin, authentication, Django REST Framework for APIs, tests, security, deployment. Audience: Python developers, web developers transitioning to Python, full-stack profiles complementing back-end, retraining profiles. Sessions delivered in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom.
Django is an open source Python web framework created in 2003 by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, and open-sourced in 2005. Maintained by the Django Software Foundation, it is today one of the most used Python web frameworks for complex web applications: custom CMS, SaaS platforms, business intranets, government, scientific and academic applications, custom e-commerce. Django has the reputation of being a batteries-included framework: it provides ORM, admin, authentication, forms, templates, security, internationalisation, etc., from installation.
In 2026, Django 5.x is the stable branch, with async views (since Django 4.1, generalised in 5.x), ORM improvements (generics, complex filters), new template tags, advanced PostgreSQL support (jsonb, native functions), better integration with ASGI servers (Uvicorn, Daphne) for async and WebSocket cases. The framework remains relevant for projects demanding productivity, default security and a mature ecosystem.
Our Django course at ITTA:
The course covers the entire framework in a project logic: MVT architecture (Model, View, Template) specific to Django, projects and applications, models and Django ORM (querysets, relations, migrations), functional and class-based views (CBV), URL routing, Django template system, Django forms (Form, ModelForm, validation, CSRF), Django admin (configuration, customisation), authentication and authorisation (User, permissions, groups), session and message management, internationalisation, static and media files, Django tests, Django REST Framework for REST APIs (serializers, viewsets, permissions, JWT), Django security (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, headers), deployment (Gunicorn, Uvicorn, ASGI, Docker, PostgreSQL). The format is hands-on, with a thread application built progressively.
Django excels on internal business applications: approval workflow, document management, project tracking, HR platforms. Django admin and the permissions system considerably accelerate back-office interface creation, which is a decisive competitive advantage on these projects.
Django was originally created for a newspaper, and its editorial DNA shows. For media, NGOs, government organisations, universities wanting a custom CMS (beyond WordPress or Drupal), Django offers flexibility, security and long-term stability. CMS like Wagtail (based on Django) have become references.
Django REST Framework (DRF) has become a standard to expose REST APIs in Python, feeding React, Vue, Angular front-ends or mobile applications. For existing Python/Django projects, DRF avoids introducing another language on the server side.
Django benefits from strong anchoring in the Python scientific community (data science, ML, computational biology, econometrics), often complementing Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn and Jupyter. It is a field where the framework is widely used to expose research tools as shareable web interfaces.
Our Django audience is broad: Python developers doing data science, ML or scripting wanting to switch to web development with Django, web developers coming from other languages (PHP, Java, C#, Node) taking a position on a Django project, full-stack profiles adding Django to their stack for APIs and admin, technical leads needing to evaluate or structure a new Django application, web development retraining profiles choosing Python as first language, technical consultants intervening on Django audits.
Django fits in a broader landscape covered by our Python and web catalogue. The Python publisher regroups our Python language training (fundamentals, advanced, data, scripting). The web development sub-domain covers all web technologies. The programming languages sub-domain regroups server languages.
For Django profiles combining web and modern front, the ReactJS, Vue.js and TypeScript publishers bring front skills complementing a Django REST Framework API. For applied data or AI in Python, the ITTA Artificial Intelligence publisher allows extending Django toward ML and generative AI uses (RAG, agents).
The 2026 Python web landscape offers three families. Django is batteries-included, productive for complete applications with admin, forms, ORM, auth out-of-the-box. Flask is minimalist, flexible, suited to micro-applications and contexts where you assemble your own bricks. FastAPI is modern, async-first, very suited to performant APIs with Pydantic typing and automatic OpenAPI documentation. The choice depends on context: complete application with admin → Django; microservice or modern API → FastAPI; total flexibility → Flask. Our course honestly addresses this positioning.
You want to switch to web development with a solid framework. Django is the right choice to acquire complete web architecture (ORM, views, templates, forms, admin) while staying in the Python ecosystem you master.
You take a position on a Django project. The course accelerates your upskilling on Django specifics (MVT, Django ORM, admin, forms) leveraging your web foundations.
You want to add Django to your front stack (React, Vue, Angular). The course gives you Django back-end and the REST API via DRF to expose your data to the front.
Several trends shape Django in 2026. Async views and ASGI integration (Uvicorn, Daphne) have matured, allowing Django on async cases (WebSocket, streaming, IO-bound). Django REST Framework remains a standard for APIs, in growing competition with Django Ninja (FastAPI style on Django). Wagtail (Django CMS) gains adoption on editorial projects. Modern deployments via containers (Docker, Kubernetes, App Runner, Cloud Run, Fly.io) have become the norm. Generative AI enters Django development via copilots (model, view, serializer, admin generation) and use of Django as back-end for AI applications (RAG on PostgreSQL pgvector, agents).
Our Django sessions are scheduled in Geneva, Lausanne and in interactive virtual classroom with a live trainer. The format is very practice-oriented on a thread application. Material modalities are communicated in advance by our education team. For development teams seeking grouped upskilling on their real Django project, we organise in-house sessions calibrated on your stack. This modality is well suited to public sector, NGO, education, research, media and B2B SaaS contexts.
Do I need Python knowledge before this course?
Yes, good Python mastery (OOP, modules, error handling, virtual environment) is necessary to follow comfortably. The course is not a beginner Python course. For profiles without Python, a Python course upstream is advised.
Django or FastAPI for a new API?
For a pure modern API (without admin, without HTML forms), FastAPI is often faster to implement. For an application with admin, forms, ORM and complex workflows, Django remains more productive. The Django REST Framework combination offers a compromise.
Is the Django admin addressed?
Yes, Django admin is treated in depth: configuration, customisation, permissions, inlines, actions. It is a major differentiating asset of Django for business applications.
Which database to use?
PostgreSQL is the recommended choice for Django (jsonb, native functions, full-text search, geometry via PostGIS). MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite are supported but with fewer advanced features. Our course uses PostgreSQL.
ITTA offers a coherent Python and web catalogue from Python language (fundamentals, advanced, data) to web frameworks (Django), front ecosystem (React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript) and applied AI. This continuity allows addressing a complete Django stack. Our Django trainers are developers active on Django projects in French-speaking Switzerland, providing concrete and current examples. Sessions available in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom, in-house and inter-company.
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