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Web Development with Django

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Pages 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Ben Shaw Ben Shaw
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Chris Guest Chris Guest
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations 3. URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Introduction to Django Admin 5. Serving Static Files 6. Forms 7. Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Sessions and Authentication 10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Building a REST API 13. Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Testing 15. Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

URL Configuration

Django views cannot work on their own in a web application. When a web request is made to the application, Django's URL configuration takes care of routing the request to the appropriate view function to process the request. A typical URL configuration in the urls.py file in Django looks like this:

from . import views
urlpatterns = [path('url-path/' views.my_view, name='my-view'),]

Here, urlpatterns is the variable defining the list of URL paths, and 'url-path/' defines the path to match.

views.my_view is the view function to invoke when there is a URL match, and name='my-view' is the name of the view function used to refer to the view. There may be a situation wherein, elsewhere in the application, we want to get the URL of this view. We wouldn't want to hardcode the value, as it would then have to be specified twice in the codebase. Instead, we can access the URL by using the name of the view, as follows...

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