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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

Tracking User Actions

In the previous chapter, you implemented AJAX views into your project using jQuery and built a JavaScript bookmarklet to share content from other websites on your platform.

In this chapter, you will learn how to build a follow system and create a user activity stream. You will also discover how Django signals work and integrate Redis's fast I/O storage into your project to store item views.

This chapter will cover the following points:

Building a follow system
Creating many-to-many relationships with an intermediary model
Creating an activity stream application
Adding generic relations to models
Optimizing QuerySets for related objects
Using signals for denormalizing counts
Storing item views in Redis

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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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