This book will introduce and walk you through the creation of your first working application using the out-of-the-box features provides. Packed with real-world problems and examples, this book introduces some of the basic concepts of and and takes you through the typical journey you'll face when developing an application. Starting with easier concepts such as routing requests, building APIs serving JSON, using templates to build websites and applications, and connecting databases, we then move on to more complex problems such as authentication, model validation, caching, and techniques for structuring your codebase to scale gracefully.