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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)

User registration and user profiles

Existing users can now log in, log out, change their password, and reset their password. Now, we will need to build a view to allow visitors to create a user account.

User registration

Let's create a simple view to allow user registration on our website. Initially, we have to create a form to let the user enter a username, their real name, and a password.
Edit the forms.py file located inside the account application directory and add the following code to it:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserRegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):
password = forms.CharField(label='Password',
widget=forms.PasswordInput)
password2 = forms.CharField...