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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
4.6 (5)
Book Image

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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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Creating SEO-friendly URLs for posts

The canonical URL for a blog post detail view currently looks like /blog/1/. We will change the URL pattern to create SEO-friendly URLs for posts. We will be using both the publish date and slug values to build the URLs for single posts. By combining dates, we will make a post detail URL to look like /blog/2022/1/1/who-was-django-reinhardt/. We will provide search engines with friendly URLs to index, containing both the title and date of the post.

To retrieve single posts with the combination of publication date and slug, we need to ensure that no post can be stored in the database with the same slug and publish date as an existing post. We will prevent the Post model from storing duplicated posts by defining slugs to be unique for the publication date of the post.

Edit the models.py file and add the following unique_for_date parameter to the slug field of the Post model:

class Post(models.Model):
    # ...
    slug = models.SlugField...