Creating a social website project

We are going to create a social application that will allow users to share images that they find on the internet. We will need to build the following elements for this project:

• An authentication system for users to register, log in, edit their profile, and change or reset their password
• A follow system to allow users to follow each other on the website
• Functionality to display shared images and a system for users to share images from any website
• An activity stream that allows users to see the content uploaded by the people that they follow

This chapter will address the first point on the list.

Starting the social website project

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Open the terminal and use the following commands to create a virtual environment for your project:

mkdir env
python -m venv env/bookmarks

If you are using Linux or macOS, run the following command to activate your virtual environment:

source env/bookmarks/bin/activate

If you are using Windows, use the following...