Creating a social website project
You are going to create a social application that will allow users to share images that they find on the Internet. You 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
- A functionality to display shared images and implement a bookmarklet 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 your social website project
Open the terminal and use the following commands to create a virtual environment for your project and activate it:
mkdir env
python3 -m venv env/bookmarks
source env/bookmarks/bin/activate
The shell prompt will display your active virtual...
