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Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

You're reading from   Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire Learn to build real-time single page applications with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240190
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andros Fenollosa Andros Fenollosa
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with Python
2. Chapter 1: Setting up the Virtual Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Django Project around Docker 4. Part 2: WebSockets in Django
5. Chapter 3: Adding WebSockets to Django 6. Chapter 4: Working with the Database 7. Chapter 5: Separating Communication in Rooms 8. Part 3: HTML over WebSockets
9. Chapter 6: Creating SPAs on the Backends 10. Chapter 7: Creating a Real-Time Blog Using Only Django 11. Part 4: Simplifying the frontend with Stimulus
12. Chapter 8: Simplifying the Frontend 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating models for the database

We will start by building two tables in the database: Post, which will contain the articles, and Comment, so that readers can leave their opinions next to the articles.

In app/website/models.py, add the following database structure:

from django.db import models
from django.utils.text import slugify
from django.urls import reverse
 
class Post(models.Model):
    # Fields: Title of the article, name of the author, 
    content of the article and date of creation.
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    author = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    content = models.TextField()
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
 
    class Meta:
        ordering = ["-created_at"]
 
    @property
   ...
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