Django 101 Introduction

These are the materials and the code snippets used in Django training sessions presented by Moez Bouhlel and Firas Chaaben from Tik.tn.

This repository is composed of different Django apps:

• Demo app containing Hello World example and a responsive contact page.
• CV app containing an example of Bootstrap based CV page generated from JSON files.
• Weather app containing an example of using Yahoo Weather API to generate a weather page.
• TODO List app example.
• Blog app example using markdown to render the content.
• Database-backed CV app.

Common Django Commands:

django-admin startproject PROJECT_NAME . # create a django project on current dir
python manage.py startapp APP_NAME       # create an app
python manage.py runserver [IP:PORT]     # run server on address http://IP:PORT or http://127.0.0.1:8000
python manage.py makemigrations          # generate app migration files
python manage.py migrate                 # apply migration files
python manage.py createsuperuser         # create superuser account

Common Django app dev steps:

• add app name to INSTALLED_APPS array on PROJECT_NAME/settings.py file.
• add url pattern to urlpatterns array on PROJECT_NAME/urls.py file to include APP_NAME urls.py file.
• define view function (or class) on APP_NAME/views.py
• define url pattern releated to the view function on APP_NAME/urls.py and add name
• define our Databese models on APP_NAME/models.py based on models.Model class
• define __str__ funtion for every model to have a better name
• register our models to the admin site on APP_NAME/admin.py
• add our templates files under APP_NAME/templates/APP_NAME/TEMPLATE.html

Links:

• Open Class Room Django Tutorial (French)

• Django Official Documentation:

  • Django Official Tutorial

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License

These materials and code snippets are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.

Copyright © 2016-2018, Moez Bouhlel (bmoez.j@gmail.com) & Firas Chaaben (firchatn@tik.tn), Tik.tn.