Python is a great language for building web apps, and Django is one of the most popular frameworks. It lets developers create web apps fast, including modern RESTful APIs, with security and scalability in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been using Visual Studio Code and Azure for a while and was invited to share my experiences at Microsoft\u2019s Channel9 studios. In these four short videos, I\u2019ve shown Nina Zakharenko (@nnja<\/a>), Senior Cloud Developer Advocate for Python at Microsoft, the entire lifecycle of a Django REST Framework application using the REST Framework tutorial app. We covered a lot of ground — from writing and debugging code with Visual Studio Code to bringing the app to the cloud using Azure Web Apps on Linux (just released in public preview<\/a>) and adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Azure DevOps. I also demoed how it\u2019s technically possible to run Django inside Azure Functions, the serverless\/reactive application platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the content for the demos is available in my repository carltongibson\/rest-framework-tutorial<\/a> on GitHub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m starting the mini-series by showing how Visual Studio Code helps building and debugging Django REST Framework apps with the Python extension, the integrated terminal, and more. Check the demo:<\/p>\n\n\n\nPart 1: Building Django apps with Visual Studio Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n