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Django 4 for the Impatient

By : Greg Lim, Daniel Correa
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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)

Listing news

Let's go ahead and display the news articles in news.html:

  1. In /news/views.py, add the following in bold:
    from django.shortcuts import render
    from .models import News
    def news(request):
        newss = News.objects.all()
        return render(request, 'news.html', 
          {'newss':newss})

We retrieve the news objects from the database and then pass them to news.html.

  1. In /news/templates/news.html, display the news objects with the following code:
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Movies App</title>
        <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/
          [email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet" crossorigin="anonymous">
      </head>
      <body...