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Ask HN: I want to create a mobile web app with Django. Where to begin?

9 points by rfnslyr 13y ago

Hailing all Python experts! What is the correct path to go if I want to write a simple web app in Django. I want to have a login and when I login, just display some simple data. Right now I'm reading up on Django, what else should I read and familiarize myself with? As a beginner it's tough sorting through all the data on Google and finding out what is write/wrong and wasting hours experimenting.

antonio-R 13y ago
Well beside reading de doc. and start by creating the "hello world" django app, you should take a look at these django packages: https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/mobile/ https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/mobile/ then save the android developers site and read the design patterns section: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/index.html http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/index.html and finally follow this tutorial to jump start your mobile app: http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/build-a-mobile-and-desktop-friendly-application-django-15-minutes http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/build-a-mobile-and-des...
- rfnslyr 13y ago
  Awesome, thank you very much, bookmarked these resources!
- SamadKhan 13y ago
  Nyc comments really thnx, i was thinking same to make app wid Django, bt am new developer with unexperienced :)
ASpring 13y ago
A project that I am currently working on uses a Django Piston API and a javascript framework on the client. Piston: https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home
jeffasinger 13y ago
There's two approaches here: 1) Traditional, have Django serve mobile optimized HTML via it's templates. 2) Use django to create an API, there's several tools to help with this, like piston, django-rest-framework, and tastypie.