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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

Creating an image bookmarking website

We will now learn how to allow users to bookmark images that they find on other websites and share them on our site. To build this functionality, we will need the following elements:

  1. A data model to store images and related information
  2. A form and a view to handle image uploads
  3. JavaScript bookmarklet code that can be executed on any website. This code will find images across the page and allow users to select the image they want to bookmark

First, create a new application inside your bookmarks project directory by running the following command in the shell prompt:

django-admin startapp images

Add the new application to the INSTALLED_APPS setting in the settings.py file of the project, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'images.apps.ImagesConfig',
]

We have activated the images application in the project.

Building the image model

Edit the models.py file of the images application...