How does Instagram use django?

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Chase Roberts picture Chase Roberts · Oct 6, 2012 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

I don't know if this is the right kind of question to ask here or not. I read that Instagram uses django which is a python web framework. But Instagram is an iOS application. Aren't iOS apps written in objective c? What do they mean by Instagram uses django?

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Hacking Life picture Hacking Life · Oct 6, 2012

IOS is the "Frontend" of the application. Django is a backend "Server Side" Web Framework.

For example, if there is an iPhone application that shows you all the latest tutorial videos about baking (lets say you had a website bakingtutorials.com), you would make an iPhone application in objective-c to run as the frontend. In your objective-c iPhone code, you would communicate with a "server" which runs Django/Python. The Server Side (Django) holds the video and other baking data in a database. The Frontend iOS application requests data from the Django application. Client Side & Server Side communication. This is usually accomplished with a RESTful API - which in basic terms, means the iPhone application uses human-readable URLs to grab data from Django/the server's database. This data is sent to the frontend from the server where it is parsed by objective-c and formatted for the application

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