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Django 4 for the Impatient

By : Greg Lim, Daniel Correa
Book Image

Django 4 for the Impatient

By: Greg Lim, Daniel Correa

Overview of this book

Learning Django can be a tricky and time-consuming activity. There are hundreds of tutorials, loads of documentation, and many explanations that are hard to digest. However, this book enables you to use and learn Django in just a couple of days. In this book, you’ll go on a fun, hands-on, and pragmatic journey to learn Django full stack development. You'll start building your first Django app within minutes. You'll be provided with short explanations and a practical approach that cover some of the most important Django features, such as Django Apps’ structure, URLs, views, templates, models, CSS inclusion, image storage, authentication and authorization, Django admin panel, and many more. You'll also use Django to develop a movies review app and deploy it to the internet. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own Django web applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Showing whether a user is logged in

After a user has signed up and logged in, we are still showing the Login and Sign Up buttons in the navbar (as shown in Figure 10.7):

Figure 10.7 – The navbar for the logged in user

For logged-in users, we should be hiding these buttons and showing the Logout button instead. To do so, let's go to our base template. Remember that our base template is the starting point for everything, and we extend it to the different views.

In moviereviews/templates/base.html, add the following code in bold:

…
    <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light 
      bg-light mb-3">
      …
        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" 
          id="navbarNavAltMarkup">
    &...