Final code for the project blog of Chapters 18-20 from the book: PYTHON CRASH COURSE 3^rd EDITION: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming by Eric Matthes.

Link to the book's solutions repo

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Note:

• This code is only for local use and has no configurations for a cloud deployment.
• This has few additional features(refer below) which are not mentioned in the book.

Additional Features

• Added visibility attribute to the Topic model for public & private topics (similar to the blog project)
• Removed help text in the Registration page.
• Restriction of register, login & logout pages as per the user's authentication.
  • This is to prevent a scenario like: Logged-in user trying the access the register or login url.
  • This is implemented using custom middleware in the accounts app.
• New edit-topic feature to edit a blog's title & visibility.
• Conditional Display of create-entry, edit-entry & edit-topic links in topic page based on the user's authentication.
• Recent Entries section in the Home page.

How to run this project:

1. Create a new virtual environment with the packages mentioned in requirements.txt and activate it.
2. Run python manage.py migrate to create a new db.sqlite3.
3. Run python manage.py createsuperuser to create a new admin user.
   1. Enter username, email & password(won't be displayed)
4. Run python manage.py runserver to run the project.
5. Visit the url shown in the terminal
   1. For Ex. https://127.0.0.1:8000/
6. To access the admin dashboard, visit the /admin subpage.
   1. For Ex. https://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

Learning Outcomes:

• Basic MVT architecture of Django
• Function based Views
• Forms in Django
• Basic Auth Functionality using Django
• Template Inheritance in Django
• Applying Bootstrap5 styling in Django
• Custom Middlewares in Django

• Languages used : python3,html
• Frameworks used : django
• Libraries used : django-bootstrap5
• Tech Domain : Full-Stack-Development