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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Book Image

Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.6 (5)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps: A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL. A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website. An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV. An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose. This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Using canonical URLs for models

A website might have different pages that display the same content. In our application, the initial part of the content for each post is displayed both on the post list page and the post detail page. A canonical URL is the preferred URL for a resource. You can think of it as the URL of the most representative page for specific content. There might be different pages on your site that display posts, but there is a single URL that you use as the main URL for a post. Canonical URLs allow you to specify the URL for the master copy of a page. Django allows you to implement the get_absolute_url() method in your models to return the canonical URL for the object.

We will use the post_detail URL defined in the URL patterns of the application to build the canonical URL for Post objects. Django provides different URL resolver functions that allow you to build URLs dynamically using their name and any required parameters. We will use the reverse() utility function...