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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example - Fifth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

4.6 (36)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you. This 2025 EDITION, fully updated to Django 5.2 LTS, is the fifth edition of the best-selling Django By Example franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django. This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Preface
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Adding asynchronous actions with JavaScript

We are going to add a like button to the image detail page to let users click on it to like an image. When users click the like button, we will send an HTTP request to the web server using JavaScript. This will perform the like action without reloading the whole page. For this functionality, we will implement a view that allows users to like/unlike images.

The JavaScript Fetch API is the built-in way to make asynchronous HTTP requests to web servers from web browsers. By using the Fetch API, you can send and retrieve data from the web server without the need for a whole page refresh. The Fetch API was launched as a modern successor to the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object that is built into the browser, used to make HTTP requests without reloading the page. The set of web development techniques to send and retrieve data from a web server asynchronously without reloading the page is also known as AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript...

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