1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

• Introduction
• The Django Framework & Overview
• How the Web Works & Server Client Communication

2. Install Python and Development Setup - Windows and Mac

• Install Python on Windows - For Windows Users ONLY
• Python Installation on Mac - For macOS Users ONLY
• Download Visual Studio Code
• Install Python Extensions
• Running First Python Program in VS Code

3. Django Web Framework Fundamentals - Deep Dive

• Install Django, Create Virtual Environment and Django Project
• Django Project File Structure Overview
• Apps vs Project - Creating and Running First Django App
• Django MVT Architecture - Overview
• Changing Project's Routes and Testing Routes on the Browser
• Passing Data to The Response in our View
• Static vs Dynamic Websites - Django Backend vs Frontend - Overview
• Django Settings and URL Dispatcher - Deeper Dive Overview
• Django Views - Deep Dive
• Django Templates - Overview
• Create an Index HTML Template and Rendering It
• Dynamically Show Data Passed Through the Template
• Django Template Language - DTL - Tags & Looping Through a List
• Adding an Else Tag into the Template
• Creating a Base Template and Extending it

4. Django Models and Database - ORM & Migrations

• Introduction to Django Models
• What is a Model and Relationships
• Restructure Code - Creating the Foodie App
• Restructuring the Templates Directory
• Django Migrations Overview - Running Migrations & Show Created Tables
• Understanding Models, Migrations Files - Create the Category Model
• The Django Shell - Add & Listing all Categories
• The Django Admin Site - Introduction & Registering the Category Model
• Modifying a Model and Running Migrations - Fix Issues
• Customizing the Admin Interface & Show More Fields on the Models
• Create the Recipe Model
• Creating the Recipe App & Code Refactor
• Running Migrations for the Recipe App - Full Internal Migration Restructuring
• Create the Comments App and Running Migrations

5. Django QuerySet API

• The Django QuerySet API - Overview
• QuerySet API - Using Filter with contains & exact Fields Lookups
• QuerySet API - Using the exclude Type
• QuerySet API - Filter Chaining
• QuerySet API - Slicing QuerySets and Aggregation
• The Django Documentation - Field Lookups - Using Greater Than
• QuerySet API - Complex Queries with the Q Object
• QuerySet API - Values and ValuesList and Exists Functions

6. Django Templates and Static Files - The Django Templating Engine

• Creating the Base.html Template - Navbar and Footer
• Showing all Recipes in a Template
• Showing the Recipes in the Details Template
• Adding URL Template Tag For Navigating to the Recipe Detail Page
• Redirecting to Home Page when Logo is Clicked
• Show Categories and Navigating to All Recipes under Specific Category
• The Meta Class and Options
• Class-based Views - Introduction and Hands-on
• Class-based Views - Showing Details Page
• The object_list Variable
• Dynamic Filtering in Class-based Views
• Creating Custom Class-based Views - Hands-on

7. Django Forms and User Inputs

• Django Forms and User Inputs - Introduction and Hands-on
• Deep Dive into Forms in Django - Hands-on
• Form Validation - Save and Redirect
• Hands-on - Custom Forms - Part 1
• Hands-on - Custom Forms - Customizations - Part 2
• Adding Recipe with a Dropdown Category
• Redirect to Recipes Page
• Add Recipe with Pre-populated Genre - Hands-on
• Code Refactor and Explaining What we Just Did
• Widgets in Django

8. Authentication and Authorization in Django

• Introduction to Django Authorization - The User Object
• Creating the User Registration Component - Part 1
• Registering a User Successfully
• Log out Users
• Create the Log in View and Template - Fixing Route Duplicates

9. Styling our Django Web App with Bootstrap

• Styling Using Bootstrap - Installation and Setup - Base.html
• Styling the Add Recipe Template
• Style Category Template
• Styling Recipes Template
• Using Filters to Format Dates
• Adding Recipe Details from Category Recipe route
• Finish Styling all Recipes Templates
• Styling the Main Page

10. Django Authentication - Creating a User Profile from the User Object

• Creating a UserProfile
• Testing the UserProfile by Adding a New User in the Admin Interface
• Adding User Field to Recipe and Comments Models
• Setting up the Edit Profile Template
• Creating UserProfiles for Existing Users Using the Django Shell
• Updating the Admin User Profile and Styling the Edit-Profile Template
• Edit Profile - Showing the User Profile Picture
• Click on Navbar Username to Get to Edit Profile
• Showing User Profile Picture if it Exists in the Navbar
• Add "created by" to Recipes
• Setting up Comments View
• Showing Comments for a Specific Recipe
• Adding Comments for a Specific Recipe
• Customizing the CommentForm
• Adding User Avatar in all Comments and Styling Comments
• Fixing the Save Recipe View to Add a User to the Recipe Model
• Allow Users to Login Before Leaving a Comment
• Limiting Access to Logged in Users - the login_required Decorator
• Adding image Field to the Recipe Module - Recipe View Restructuring
• Showing Recipe Images
• Styling the Main Page
• Styling the Recipe Card

11. The Django Messaging Framework

• The Django Messaging Framework - Overview and Setup
• Showing Messages in the Template
• Adding Bootstrap Alert Styling to the Message
• Your Turn - Add Messages and Display them Throughout the Entire Project
• Adding a Search Bar - Part 1
• Styling the Search Bar
• Finalizing the Search bar Functionality
• Complex Search Filter with the Q Object

12. Session Management in Django

• Session Management in Django - Introduction
• Setup a Session - Keep track of Number of Visits
• Deleting a Session and Flushing it Altogether
• Showing Session Expiration Time
• Session Hands-on - Feedback Form Review Step

13. Adding Favorites Recipe Feature to the App

• Adding Favorite Recipe Feature
• Setting up the Toggle View and URL
• Toggling Favorite
• Adding FontAwesome Icons
• Showing Users Favorite Recipes
• Adding a Navbar button to Show All Favorite Recipes
• Styling the Navbar Buttons and Testing with Logged out Users

14. Delete & Update Recipes

• Delete a Recipe
• Edit Recipe

15. Django REST Framework - Build a REST API

• Introduction to REST and API - Overview
• Create Recipe Serializer
• Show the Recipe API Endpoints
• Adding a Recipe Via the API View
• Creating User and Category Serializer and Nesting Them
• Final Remarks on APIs

16. Deploying our Django Web App to Heroku

• Setting up Heroku for Deployment
• Setting up Project for Deployment - the Procfile
• Full Deployment and Walkthrough

17. Wrap up

• Course Wrap up - Where to Go From Here