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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 2 by Example

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django 2, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django 2 projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and set up a production environment for your Django 2 projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django 2 and how to build advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Displaying courses

For our course catalog, we have to build the following functionality:

  • List all available courses, optionally filtered by subject
  • Display a single course overview

Edit the views.py file of the courses application and add the following code:

from django.db.models import Count
from .models import Subject

class CourseListView(TemplateResponseMixin, View):
model = Course
template_name = 'courses/course/list.html'

def get(self, request, subject=None):
subjects = Subject.objects.annotate(
total_courses=Count('courses'))
courses = Course.objects.annotate(
total_modules=Count('modules'))
if subject:
subject = get_object_or_404(Subject, slug=subject)
courses = courses.filter(subject=subject)
return self.render_to_response({'subjects...