Using Django features

Once you are comfortable with Banjo, you may find yourself wanting to do something that isn’t supported by Banjo. Fortunately, Banjo is just a simplified wrapper around Django, a full-powered web application framework which has excellent documentation.

If you are willing to learn some new concepts, you can import features from Django into a Banjo project. Banjo’s model and field classes already support many Django features we have not previously discussed. For example, if you wanted to make sure that a model field never has duplicate values, you could use the unique argument when you define the field.

In other cases, you can import classes from Django into a Banjo project. For example, if you wanted to create an app which works with dates, you might want to include a date field. For example:

# app/models.py

from banjo.models import Model, StringField
from django.db.models import DateField

class Birthday(Model):
    name = StringField()
    birthday = Date()

Of course then you have to learn how to work with dates.

Banjo can take you a long way. Hopefully as you grow you will find yourself using more and more functionality from Django, until at some point you have outgrown Banjo entirely and are creating and deploying full-powered web applications.