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Django 4 By Example

You're reading from   Django 4 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813051
Length 766 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Creating image thumbnails using easy-thumbnails

We are displaying the original image on the detail page, but dimensions for different images may vary considerably. The file size for some images may be very large, and loading them might take too long. The best way to display optimized images in a uniform manner is to generate thumbnails. A thumbnail is a small image representation of a larger image. Thumbnails will load faster in the browser and are a great way to homogenize images of very different sizes. We will use a Django application called easy-thumbnails to generate thumbnails for the images bookmarked by users.

Open the terminal and install easy-thumbnails using the following command:

pip install easy-thumbnails==2.8.1

Edit the settings.py file of the bookmarks project and add easy_thumbnails to the INSTALLED_APPS setting, as follows:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'easy_thumbnails',
]

Then, run the following command to sync the application...

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