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Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
Book Image

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)

Creating an image bookmarking website

We will allow users to bookmark and share images they find on other websites and on our site. For this, we will need to do the following tasks:

  1. Define a model to store images and their information
  1. Create a form and a view to handle image uploads
  2. Build a system for users to be able to post images they find on external websites

First, create a new application inside your bookmarks project directory with the following command:

django-admin startapp images

Add the new app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting in the settings.py file, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...
'images.apps.ImagesConfig',
]

We have activated the images application in the project.

Building the image model

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