Showing Bitcoin prices using Django and Matplotlib
We have now established a fully fledged website backbone using just a few commands. I hope you will appreciate the simplicity of using Django for web development. Now, I will demonstrate how we can integrate Matplotlib charts into a Django site, which is the key topic of this chapter.
Creating a Django app
An app in the Django ecosystem refers to an application that handles a specific function within a site. For instance, our default project comes with the profile and account apps already. With the terminology clarified, we are set to build an app to display the latest price of bitcoin.
We should keep our development server running in the background. When the server detects any changes to our code base, it will reload automatically to reflect the changes. Therefore, right now, we need to launch a new Terminal and attach to the running server container:
docker exec -it 377bfb2f3db4 bash
The strange-looking numbers before bash refer to the ID of...
