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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)

Adding the tagging functionality

After implementing your comment system, you will create a way to tag our posts. You will do this by integrating a third-party Django tagging application in our project. The django-taggit module is a reusable application that primarily offers you a Tag model and a manager to easily add tags to any model. You can take a look at its source code at https://github.com/alex/django-taggit.

First, you will need to install django-taggit via pip by running the following command:

pip install django_taggit==0.22.2

Then, open the settings.py file of the mysite project and add taggit to your INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...
'blog.apps.BlogConfig',
'taggit',
]

Open the models.py file of your blog application and add the TaggableManager manager provided by django-taggit to the Post model using...