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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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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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Index

Creating a social website project

We are going to create a social application that will allow users to share images that they find on the internet. We will need to build the following elements for this project:

  • An authentication system for users to register, log in, edit their profile, and change or reset their password
  • A follow system to allow users to follow each other on the website
  • Functionality to display shared images and a system for users to share images from any website
  • An activity stream that allows users to see the content uploaded by the people that they follow

This chapter will address the first point on the list.

Starting the social website project

Open the terminal and use the following commands to create a virtual environment for your project:

mkdir env
python -m venv env/bookmarks

If you are using Linux or macOS, run the following command to activate your virtual environment:

source env/bookmarks/bin/activate...