🧠 Understanding MVC vs MVT in Django

✨ My First Steps in Django: Learning the Architecture Behind the Magic
As I began my Django journey, I kept hearing about something called MVT and people kept comparing it to MVC. It was confusing at first, but once I understood the structure, everything made so much more sense.

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💡 What is MVC (Model-View-Controller)?

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The MVC pattern is a common way to organize web applications. It separates your code into 3 parts:

1. Model – Manages the data and business rules (like a database table).
2. View – The user interface; what the user sees (HTML pages).
3. Controller – Takes user input, communicates with the model, and decides what view to display.

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🧾 Example in MVC:

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• A user clicks a button to view products.
• The Controller processes that action, retrieves the products from the Model.
• Then it sends them to the View, which displays the list of products.

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🧩 How Django Follows MVT (Model-View-Template)

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Django doesn’t follow MVC strictly. Instead, it follows MVT, which works like this:

• Model – Same as MVC. It defines the database structure using Python classes.
• View – This is where Django puts the logic to fetch data and return a response. It acts like the Controller in MVC.
• Template – The HTML page that shows data to the user.

So where is the Controller in Django? 🤔
Django handles it internally using its powerful URL routing and request-response system. You don’t need to write a separate controller file — Django views handle that for you!

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💬 Final Thoughts

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Learning the difference between MVC and MVT helped me understand how Django separates concerns and organizes its files. Even though it’s not exactly MVC, Django’s approach makes development fast, clean, and fun — especially with templates and the built-in admin!