Django is a web framework designed to handle many components for you—batteries included. In theory, this means you can write some underlying components and then deploy them in a meaningful capacity, compared to other more bare-bones patterns you may be familiar with in other languages or frameworks

However, this requires that you follow a specific set of guidelines and an order of steps. Essentially, you’re writing a series of steps that become operators, which then act on operands—this is the functional structure you're working within.

That said, this guide isn't focused on Django as a whole. Instead, we're going to zero in on how to model the considerations and components needed to manage administrative access, ensuring the right user has the right level of access. If the system fails, our setup should help us understand why it failed.

The tools chosen for this project are explained in the documentation. The context for each tool’s selection is important—and it’s up to you to familiarize yourself with them. I recommend that, for each line of code or tool mentioned, you take time to understand what it is, what it does, and how to invoke it effectively.

The components are chosen with usability in mind—for example, making command names closely resemble the action they perform, and enabling tab autocompletion for efficiency.

The rest of the setup is designed to bring good terminal practices into your workflow—without having to learn every painful lesson from scratch.

It’s like riding a bike with training wheels—you might not care how the training wheels are made, only that they work. That’s what this environment is: supportive, so you can learn safely.
If you do care about how the training wheels were built, though, you’re free to dive into the deeper material from that angle.