badripaudel77/blogs-web-app-django

A fully functional django and python blog website with blogs CRUD functionalities, pagination, comments on particular post, using django, postgreSQL, bootstrap 5 etc.

This is a full stack application that has complete web blogs application with following features :

• Home Page lists all the posts with paginated result
• On clicking post, leads to the details page with author details, category, tags etc.
• Clicking on author name, takes to the page where all the blogs posts written by that author will be dispalyed.
• Clicking on category will do very similar as above but category related posts.
• User can comment on this blog post, only three recent comments of the post have been fetched.
• Also , rest api for Post models [related to blogs] , all the CRUD functionality have been implemented.

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• Install Python

• Create Virtual Environment and activate

  virtualenv env
  source env/bin/activate
  

• Install django

  pip install django==4.2
  

• Create Django Project

  django-admin startproject django_blog
  

  cd django_blog where manage.py is located.

• Migrate [syncs db with models ]

  python manage.py migrate
  

• Run the django Project

  python manage.py runserver
  

  Create the django app [app is complete module]

  python manage.py startapp blog

• To Create superuser in python use [for admin access in the url /admin]:

  python manage.py createsuperuser
  

  To render the template, use either render as follows :returnrender(request, 'blog/index.html', data_dict) where data_dict is key value pair dictionary that we want to pass and access in the template called index.html

  or we can use this as :

• To render the template, use either render as follows :returnrender(request, 'blog/index.html', data_dict) where data_dict is key value pair dictionary that we want to pass and access in the template called index.html

  return render(request, 'blog/index.html', data_dict)
  

  or use :

  blog_template = template.loader.get_template('blog/index.html').render(data_dict)

  return HttpResponse(blog_template)

• To include template in another page or location, we can use the following syntax :

  {% include 'path_to_template_same_as_rendering' %}
  

• Django ORM :

• To save object to the db,obj.save()

• To delete the object from db,obj.delete()

  Django by default adds a manager called objects to every model class. The objects manager helps us to interact with the database in complicated ways. The objects manager is the most common way Django developers interact with the database. ModelClass.objects

  Author.objects.all()

  To enter into interactive shell, type :python manage.py shell

  To generaterequirements.txt : pip freeze > requirements.txt

  To install dependencies inside of requirments.txt, use :pip install -r requirements.txt

  To Run this project, clone this repository and go to the main directory and runpython manage.py runserver