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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django, then this book is for you. In the process of building four professional Django projects, you will learn about Django 3 features, how to solve common web development problems, how to implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications. In this book, you will build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Step-by-step guidance will teach you how to integrate popular technologies, enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. By the end of this book, you will have mastered Django 3 by building advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Setting up the e-learning project

Your final practical project will be an e-learning platform. First, create a virtual environment for your new project and activate it with the following commands:

mkdir env
python3 -m venv env/educa
source env/educa/bin/activate

Install Django in your virtual environment with the following command:

pip install "Django==3.0.*"

You are going to manage image uploads in your project, so you also need to install Pillow with the following command:

pip install Pillow==7.0.0

Create a new project using the following command:

django-admin startproject educa

Enter the new educa directory and create a new application using the following commands:

cd educa
django-admin startapp courses

Edit the settings.py file of the educa project and add courses to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'courses.apps.CoursesConfig',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django...