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How to deploy your Django app to Heroku for FREE

Oct 27, 20203 min read

Deploying a Django app to Heroku can be a walk in the park for some developers. But for some developers, it seems like they're going through a rough time when they're deploying their Django app. To tell you honestly, I also had a hard time deploying ...

Showing the data we created on the frontend

Oct 27, 20207 min read

Now that we've created the data for our blog, we'll learn how to show it using the Django ORM in this chapter. Wait, what? O-R, what? The Django ORM gives a convenient way to access the database. It stands for Object Relational Mapper. In other words...

Creating the data and fine-tuning the templates

Oct 27, 20207 min read

Django follows the DRY principle of software development or the Don't repeat yourself principle, aiming to minimize writing code or repeating code. There's a discussion on the Portland Pattern Repository that explains this in context. The argument ma...

Testing our app using Unittests

Oct 27, 202015 min read

Suppose you've gotten familiar with our project directory. In that case, you should've noticed the testing, code quality packages, and linters installed earlier when we installed the development requirements. In testing our models, views & forms, we'...

Creating the models.py, views.py, urls.py, admin.py & the superuser

Oct 27, 20207 min read

In writing models in Django, we have to follow the coding standards that are stated in the docs. A few pointers to remember are all field names should be in lower case, and should be using underscores instead of camelCase. The next tip is that the cl...

Model Architecture Planning

Oct 27, 20201 min read

Django is based on the Model-View-Template software design architecture, which means that the Model takes care of our data and logic, the views will take care of what the users will see in the browser when you render your site, and the templates will...