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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 2 Web Development Cookbook 100 practical recipes on building scalable Python web apps with Django 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837682
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aidas Bendoraitis Aidas Bendoraitis
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Structure and Modeling 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Customizing Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Django CMS 9. Hierarchical Structures 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Bells and Whistles 12. Testing and Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing the Like widget

Websites, in general, and most commonly those with a social component, often have integrated Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ widgets to Like and Share content. In this recipe, we will guide you through the building of a similar Django app that will save information in your database whenever a user likes something. You will be able to create specific views based on the things that are liked on your website. We will similarly create a Like widget with a two-state button and badge showing the number of total likes. The following are the states:

  • This is an inactive state, where you can click on a button to activate it:
  • This is an active state, where you can click on a button to deactivate it:

Changes in the state of the widget will be handled by Ajax calls.

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