What is Zappa Django?

What is Zappa Django?

Zappa Django is a set of Python packages for building modern web-applications based on web.

Py, which provides a clean, non-invasive approach to creating web applications using existing tools and technologies.

The idea behind Zappa Django is that it can make it easy for developers to create fullstack web applications. It provides a clean, non-invasive approach to creating web applications with a simple, well-defined set of features.

For example, you can use the default framework and write your application in Zappa Django and don't have to worry about how you configure things or the configuration files. This is important to make things easier for developers and you can think of it as the next step in the direction of web.py, that was the precursor to Zappa Django. It is not a direct successor of web.py, but it gives you more flexibility and less magic.

It is based on the same philosophy of how things should work and why web.py does so well for this purpose. The idea of having small Python libraries (eg functions and classes) works really well for web. And you don't need to deal with complex abstractions and boilerplate code. It gives you an opinionated way of working.

Zappa Django is designed to make it easier for developers to create fullstack web applications. You can use the default framework and just focus on what matters to you - the application logic. Everything else takes care of itself.

You can think of Zappa Django as the next step in the direction of web.py, which provided a very good basis.py, but it is an attempt to provide something similar. It gives you more flexibility and less magic.

If you want to know about web.py, read about it first.

Table of Contents. Getting started. A short tutorial is provided that shows you the core concepts of Zappa Django and how to use it to build a web application. You can look at this tutorial to see a minimal example of a Zappa Django application.

A list of all of the code used in the tutorial is included. The tutorials section has information on how to get started, basic information on how to use Zappa Django and how it works.

Can Django run with AWS Lambda?

The short answer is yes, but if you don't build your function to respond to the HTTP request, your requests will time out.

It really makes no sense to have a lambda endpoint that doesn't respond to a request, right? There are a few articles out there explaining why a lambda cannot be used in this way (ie: not responding to requests). It's not that complicated. The basic explanation is that a Lambda function needs some form of event processing to execute the code that you wrote.

When the HTTP request comes into Amazon's server, Amazon must first validate that it's a valid HTTP request. It must decide whether to forward the request to your Lambda function or it simply passes control back to Amazon's server. In the AWS docs for this process they call it request validation. This involves processing the incoming HTTP request (GET, POST, PUT etc.) and decides if this should be directed to your Lambda function. If your Lambda is not handling that request, then Amazon passes the request to the server again for execution instead. To keep this simple, I'm going to refer to this step as forwarding the request to your function.

This is the fundamental problem: if you don't want to process the incoming requests, you have two options. You can 1.) make sure that every request is validated, you know what we call a bad plan, or 2.) tell AWS that all of your requests should go through your function. That is easy enough. I have already setup this in my own AWS stack. We need one more AWS account to use this method. You also need to use their API Gateway service and create a unique API endpoint that will listen for your HTTP requests. The AWS instructions for doing this can be found at:

After creating our backend API endpoint, we need to create a CNAME pointing to our specific path of the API. The API key and secret will need to be shared between AWS and our backend service so that AWS can know who our specific URL belongs to.