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.

This week’s theme for the Tutorial o’ the Day is Django, an open source, high-level Python web framework whose tag line — The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines — nicely sums ...

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 ...

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 ...