xxiz/django-blog

✍️ A simple blog application written in Django to understand the concept/mess around with.

Django Blog

My inital attempt at understanding web frameworks/advanced python, this project gave me a great deal of knowledge from understanding how web frameworks work to creating efficently modified images. This project was my first attempt at an Django Application, written with help Corey Schafer and his series on Django which was very helpful in introducing me to Django. I started this project wanting to learn Django and ended up using this project to host a dedicated website for my relatives/family to discuss and write about my late grandfather (RIP).

Why Django?

Django was really something I was always intrested in learning because I use Python frequently to write small scripts that automate simple tasks (first world problems LOL), and now with Django I'm able to bring that to the web. In addition, I was able to understand and see first hand how large websites like Instagram work/understand their backend, as they utilize the Django framework for their website.

Skills/Experience

This project covered a lot of areas that will help me later on in my career as a developer, as I could now be classified as a full-stack developer? kind of? idk.

• Working with the Django framework
• Image manipulation with Pillow
• Authentication via CSRF Tokens
• OOP (Object Oriented Programming)
• Building a front-end with CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap, UIKit)
• Understanding structure of backend websites

Usage

1. Clone the repository via Github Desktop or run the command below in Git

git clone https://github.com/ashwin2200/django-blog.git

2. Install the the required libraries via the commands below.

pip install Django
pip install PIL

3. Move to the working directory "django-blog" and start the server via the command below

python3 manage.py runserver

4. Visit the website locally on the same device at https://localhost:8080 and be amazed because it's so cool.

License

Django Blog is licensed under the MIT License.