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Django 3 By Example - Third Edition

By : Antonio Melé
Book Image

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

Creating an image bookmarking website

In this chapter, you will learn how to allow users to bookmark and share images that they find on other websites and on your site. For this, you will need to do the following tasks:

  1. Define a model to store images and their information
  2. Create a form and a view to handle image uploads
  3. Build a system for users to be able to post images that they find on external websites

First, create a new application inside your bookmarks project directory with the following command:

django-admin startapp images

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

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

You have activated the images application in the project.

Building the image model

Edit the models.py file of the images application and add the following code to it:

from django.db import models
from django.conf import settings...