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Django 3 By Example

You're reading from Django 3 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838981952

Length 568 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Web Design

Author (1):

Antonio Melé

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Building a Blog Application

2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features FREE CHAPTER

3. Extending Your Blog Application

4. Building a Social Website

5. Sharing Content on 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. Building a Chat Server

14. Going Live

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

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...

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Authors (1)

Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Nucoro, the fintech platform that allows financial institutions to build, automate, and scale digital wealth management products. Antonio is also CTO of Exo Investing, an AI-driven digital investment platform for the UK market. Antonio has been developing Django projects since 2006 for clients across several industries. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a development company specialized in building digital products. He has been working as a CTO and technology consultant for multiple technology-based startups and he has managed development teams building projects for large digital businesses. Antonio holds an MSc. in Computer Science from ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where he mentors early-stage startups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming.

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