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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
Book Image

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 AJAX pagination to your list views

We will need to list all bookmarked images on our website. We will use AJAX pagination to build infinite scroll functionality. Infinite scroll is achieved by loading the next results automatically when the user scrolls to the bottom of the page.

We will implement an image list view that will handle both standard browser requests and AJAX requests, including pagination. When the user initially loads the image list page, we will display the first page of images. When they scroll to the bottom of the page, we load the following page of items via AJAX and append it to the bottom of the main page.

The same view will handle both standard and AJAX pagination. Edit the views.py file of the images application and add the following code to it:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.core.paginator import Paginator, EmptyPage, \
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