Finally, it’s time to deploy our project. Instead of doing everything manually, we use a server management panel, which is much more beginner-friendly. Setup a VPS First, let’s setup a new VPS by following this tutorial. Now, you have two choices, you can either follow… Read More »Django Tutorial #10: Deployment
In this post, we’ll create some optional features for our website. If you are not interested, just skip to the end of this post and start preparing for deployment. Pagination When we add more and more posts to our blog, creating a paginator might be… Read More »Django Tutorial #9: Wrap Things Up
The search function is a fundamental feature for almost all websites, and in this article, we’ll talk about how to implement basic search in our Django project. A search function consists of three parts, a search form that allows users to pass queries to the… Read More »Django Tutorial #8: Search
In this article, we’ll start by creating the URL configurations for our website. URL Configurations Django_31_Tutorial/urls.py blog/urls.py In the last line, this is how we can use the media and static files during development, but it is not suitable for production. Create Views Each view… Read More »Django Tutorial #7: Create Views and Templates
Design Database Structure For a simple blogging system, we need at least 4 database tables: Users, Categories, Tags, and Posts. If you want other functions for your blog, comments, for example, you can add other tables yourself. To keep this tutorial short and easy to understand, these four are… Read More »Django Tutorial #6: Create Models and Setup Admin Panel
Now, it is time for us to dive into our project. To get familiar with everything, we start by creating only the home page. Since this is the first time that we work with all the components we talked about, the model, admin, view, URL… Read More »Django Tutorial #5: Create the Home Page
The admin panel is one major advantage of the Django framework. Not only it is built into the framework, but it is also directly connected to the models. Whenever you make a change to the models, the corresponding admin page will be changed, no extra… Read More »Django Tutorial #4: Admin Panel
Introducing the MTV Structure The MTV structure means that the application is divided into three parts. The (M) model defines the data model, (T) template presents data and (V) view defines logic and manipulates data. Views Views act like the controllers in Laravel. It is… Read More »Django Tutorial #3: The MTV Structure
In the second part of this tutorial, we are going to talk about the URL configurations of Django, which is the entry point to all websites. Basic Configuration The URL configurations are stored in Django_31_Tutorial/urls.py, the most basic URL configuration looks like this: It reads… Read More »Django Tutorial #2: URL Configuration
Why Django? Django’s primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites. The framework emphasizes reusability and “pluggability” of components, less code, low coupling, rapid development, and the principle of don’t repeat yourself. Python is used throughout, even for settings files and data… Read More »Django Tutorial #1: Setup the Project