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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
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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)

Setting up the e-learning project

Our final practical project will be an e-learning platform. In this chapter, we are going to build a flexible CMS that allows instructors to create courses and manage their contents.

First, create a virtual environment for your new project and activate it with the following commands:

mkdir env
virtualenv env/educa
source env/educa/bin/activate

Install Django in your virtual environment with the following command:

pip install Django==2.0.5

We are going to manage image uploads in our project, so we also need to install Pillow with the following command:

pip install Pillow==5.1.0

Create a new project using the following command:

django-admin startproject educa

Enter the new educa directory and create a new application using the following commands:

cd educa
django-admin startapp courses

Edit the settings.py file of the educa project and add courses...