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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)

Registering customer orders

When a shopping cart is checked out, you need to save an order into the database. Orders will contain information about customers and the products they are buying.

Create a new application for managing customer orders using the following command:

python manage.py startapp orders

Edit the settings.py file of your project and add the new application to the INSTALLED_APPS setting as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...
'orders.apps.OrdersConfig',
]

You have activated the orders application.

Creating order models

You will need a model to store the order details, and a second model to store items bought, including their price and quantity. Edit the models.py file of the orders application...