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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.6 (5)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps: A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL. A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website. An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV. An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose. This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Integrating the chat application with existing views

The chat server is now fully implemented, and students enrolled on a course can communicate with each other. Let’s add a link for students to join the chat room for each course.

Edit the students/course/detail.html template of the students application and add the following <h3> HTML element code at the bottom of the <div class="contents"> element:

<div class="contents">
  ...
  <h3>
    <a href="{% url "chat:course_chat_room" object.id %}">
      Course chat room
    </a>
  </h3>
</div>

Open the browser and access any course that the student is enrolled on to view the course contents. The sidebar will now contain a Course chat room link that points to the course chat room view. If you click on it, you will enter the chat room:

Figure 16.8: The course detail page, including a link to the course chat room

Congratulations...