Building a generic activity stream application

Many social websites display an activity stream to their users so that they can track what other users do on the platform. An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by a user or a group of users. For example, Facebook’s News Feed is an activity stream. Sample actions can be user X bookmarked image Y or user X is now following user Y.

You are going to build an activity stream application so that every user can see the recent interactions of the users they follow. To do so, you will need a model to save the actions performed by users on the website and a simple way to add actions to the feed.

Create a new application named actions inside your project with the following command:

python manage.py startapp actions

Add the new application to INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file of your project to activate the application in your project. The new line is highlighted in bold:

INSTALLED_APPS = [...