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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

Adding pagination

When you start adding content to your blog, you can easily store tens or hundreds of posts in your database. Instead of displaying all the posts on a single page, you may want to split the list of posts across several pages and include navigation links to the different pages. This functionality is called pagination, and you can find it in almost every web application that displays long lists of items.

For example, Google uses pagination to divide search results across multiple pages. Figure 2.2 shows Google’s pagination links for search result pages:

Figure 2.2: Google pagination links for search result pages

Django has a built-in pagination class that allows you to manage paginated data easily. You can define the number of objects you want to be returned per page and you can retrieve the posts that correspond to the page requested by the user.

Adding pagination to the post list view

Edit the views.py file of the blog application...