[ldonley]

It might be worthwhile to use a library like Flask which has less batteries included. This will force you to figure out which pieces of the puzzle you are missing and will (hopefully) allow you to learn a lot through exploration.

Once you understand what everything is doing, going back to Django, you should understand what all of the components are doing.

Django & Flask are not exactly one-to-one with the way they handle a lot of things, but I think it would still be a useful exercise.

[megasquid]

Thanks Idonley. I have heard that flask is easier. At this point I feel too deep into Django to give up. However, picking up some flask stuff on the side could be worthwhile. Would certainly broaden my understanding of it all.

[bigmanwalter]

I would second this advice. Flask is structured much more intuitively than Django. The first time I tried Flask after Django everything just clicked into place immediately.

[togusa2017]

I would agree too. Flask will help you understand the basic web framework and will give you confidence. In the past I often used django but once I worked with flask I never looked back.