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One of the thing I usually find hardest about trying out any new web-stack is not necessarily writing the code but wrangling with all the ecosystem BS around it.

It's nice for a tutorial to acknowledge this and give you a VM to play around with.



Yes this is hard. In Django especially, not very easy for beginners.

But put it at the end of the tutorial, not at the beginning

Come on guys, they're doing the tutorial to learn Django, not "all the things around it" (which are important, but it is not Django).


This is true, but you need to do battle with "all the things around it" in order to get the thing to work properly in the first place.

I agree that to learn a language you should not focus on "operational" stuff, but once you get into web frameworks that line can get a little blurry.




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