[Django]-Understanding Django coming from R Shiny?

Django’s relationship with HTML is just to provide a templating language that can help inject data from python objects into the static html that is rendered. It doesn’t do any other creation of hooks that a frontend library would do.

Otherwise it operates as a place to make api calls to that your front end can use to manipulate itself with.

tl;dr – django doesn’t really do anything with front end, it just renders it and provides it data