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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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Implementing custom management commands

Django allows your applications to register custom management commands for the manage.py utility. For example, you used the management commands makemessages and compilemessages in Chapter 9, Extending Your Shop, to create and compile translation files.

A management command consists of a Python module containing a Command class that inherits from django.core.management.base.BaseCommand or one of its subclasses. You can create simple commands or make them take positional and optional arguments as input.

Django looks for management commands in the management/commands/ directory for each active application in the INSTALLED_APPS setting. Each module found is registered as a management command named after it.

You can learn more about custom management commands at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/custom-management-commands/.

You are going to create a custom management command to remind students to enroll at least on...