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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)

Building a Social Website

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to create sitemaps and feeds and built a search engine for your blog application. In this chapter, you will develop a social application. You will create a functionality for users to log in, log out, edit, and reset their password. You will learn how to create a custom profile for your users, and you will add social authentication to your site.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Using the Django authentication framework
  • Creating user registration views
  • Extending the user model with a custom profile model
  • Adding social authentication with python-social-auth

Let's start by creating our new project.