Build a blogging app in Django

Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly. It's designed to balance rapid web development with high performance. It handles high levels of user traffic and interaction, integrates with a variety of databases, and collects and processes data in real time.

Perhaps the best way to learn how to use a new framework is to buil something with it. In Chapter 1 of Django 2 by Example, you'll build your first Django app: a simple blogging application

It's a fairly humble start, but along the way you'll learn many of the fundamentals of working with Django:

Installing Django and creating your first project
Designing models and generating model migrations
Creating an administration site for your models
Working with QuerySet and managers
Building views, templates, and URLs
Adding pagination to list views
Using Django's class-based views

On subsequent chapters, you'll enhance your app with a comment system and tagging functionality, a site map, full text search capability, and more!

Django 2 by Example

Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly. If you want to learn about the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django, then this book is for you. This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices.

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