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Django 2 by Example

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Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788472487

Pages 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Antonio Melé

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Building a Blog Application

2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features

3. Extending Your Blog Application

4. Building a Social Website

5. Sharing Content in Your Website

6. Tracking User Actions

7. Building an Online Shop

8. Managing Payments and Orders

9. Extending Your Shop

10. Building an E-Learning Platform

11. Rendering and Caching Content

12. Building an API

13. Going Live

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the basics of the Django web framework by creating a basic blog application. You have designed the data models and applied migrations to your project. You have created the views, templates, and URLs for your blog, including object pagination.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to enhance your blog application with a comment system and tagging functionality and allow your users to share posts by email.

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Authors (1)

Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.

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