README.md

django_local_library

django_local_library from mdn web doc. Local Library website written in Django

Status

part 4 done

Content

Create Project

• Create a development environment for Django4.0* using virtualenvwrapper
  • mkvirtualenv [env-name]
  • workon [env-name]
  • deactivate
  • rmvirtualenv [env-name]
• Create git ignore
• Learn start and stop server using manage.py
  • python3 manage.py runserver

Create Framework

• Learn to create skeleton website using python package: django-admin
  • django-admin startproject [project-name]
• Understand Django framwork, applications, urlmapper
• Create application using manage.py
  • python3 manage.py startapp <app-name>
• Database Migration
  • python3 manage.py makemigrations
  • python3 manage.py migrate

Create Model

• Model design
• Model definitions
  • Fields
  • Metadata
  • Methods
  • Methods
• Types of field
• Model relationships
• Model manipulation

Create Task for migration

• Setting up VSCode Task
• Create task for model and database migration

Admin site

create admin site using project's admin.py, added data through it and customize admin view using ModelAdmin class.

• Create admin view
• Customize admin view
  • inline display
  • list display
  • section display
  • filter

Create Views

Learn to create simple URL maps and views (where no data is encoded in the URL), get data from models, and create templates.

Flow

1. Determine what information we want to display in our pages
2. Define the URLs to use for returning those resources.
3. Create a URL mapper, views, and templates to display the pages.

url mapper -> view functions -> templates

• url mapping
• index page
• function based view generation
• html templates
• static resources
• pagination
• listview
• template logics
  • variable
  • loop
  • condition

current views

• homepage
• books
• authors