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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

Building a Social Website

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to implement a tagging system and how to recommend similar posts. You implemented custom template tags and filters. You also learned how to create sitemaps and feeds for your site, and you built a full-text search engine using PostgreSQL.

In this chapter, you will learn how to develop user account functionalities to create a social website, including user registration, password management, profile editing, and authentication. We will implement social features into this site in the next few chapters, to let users share images and interact with each other. Users will be able to bookmark any image on the internet and share it with other users. They will also be able to see activity on the platform from the users they follow and like/unlike the images shared by them.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a login view
  • Using the Django authentication framework
  • Creating templates...