Django REST Framework allows us to work with regular Django views. It facilitates processing the HTTP requests and providing appropriate HTTP responses. In this section, you will understand how to implement Django views for the Restful Web service. We also make use of the @api_view decorator....

Python Django is a web framework that allows to quickly create efficient web pages. Django is also called batteries included framework because it provides built-in features such as Django Admin Interface, default database – SQLite3, etc. When you’re building a website, you always need a similar set of components: a way to handle user authentication (signing up, signing in, signing out), a management panel for your website, forms, a way to upload files, etc. Django gives you ready-made components to use....

Django REST Framework is used to create web APIs very easily and efficiently. This is a wrapper around the Django Framework. There are three stages before creating an API through the REST framework, Converting a Model’s data to JSON/XML format (Serialization), Rendering this data to the view, and Creating a URL for mapping to the views....

In this article, we are going to build College Management System using Django and will be using dbsqlite database. In the times of covid, when education has totally become digital, there comes a need for a system that can connect teachers, students, and HOD and that was the motivation behind building this project....

Static Files such as Images, CSS, or JS files are often loaded via a different app in production websites to avoid loading multiple stuff from the same server. This article revolves around, how you can set up the static app in Django and server Static Files from the same....

The Django’s built-in authentication system is great. For the most part we can use it out-of-the-box, saving a lot of development and testing effort. It fits most of the use cases and is very safe. But sometimes we need to do some fine adjustment so to fit our Web application. Commonly we want to store a few more data related to our User but the next question might be that  how should a Django developer reference a User? The official Django docs list three separate ways:...

Django is a python framework for web development which works on jinja2 templating engine. When data is rendered along with the template after passing through views.py, that data becomes static on the html file along which it was rendered. As django is a backend framework, hence to use the power of python to use that data dynamically requests need to be generated. These requests can be type GET, POST, AJAX etc. But without making any call to the backend the only way to use that data dynamically is to pass it to JavaScript. Often passing a few values to JavaScript does the trick. But sometimes the entire dictionary of data needs to passed. This can be done using JSON and django template tags....

A Django template is a text document or a Python string marked-up using the Django template language. Django being a powerful Batteries included framework provides convenience to rendering data in a template. Django templates not only allow passing data from view to template, but also provides some limited features of programming such as variables, for loops, comments, extends, url, etc. This article revolves about how to use url tag in Templates. url tag Returns an absolute path reference (a URL without the domain name) matching a given view and optional parameters. This is a way to output links without violating the DRY principle by having to hard-code URLs in your templates:...

Django is a Python-based web framework that allows you to quickly create web applications. It has built-in admin interface which makes easy to work with it. It is often called Batteries included framework because it provides built-in facilities for every functionality. Class Based Generic Views are advanced set of Built-in views which are used for implementation of selective view strategies such as Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete. Class based views simplify the use by separating GET, POST requests for a view. They do not replace function-based views, but have certain differences and advantages when compared to function-based views:...

ImageField in Django Forms is a input field for upload of image files. The default widget for this input is ClearableFileInput. It normalizes to: An UploadedFile object that wraps the file content and file name into a single object. This article revolves about how to upload images with Django forms and how can you save that to the database.Note:...

MultipleChoiceField in Django Forms is a Choice field, for input of multiple pairs of values from a field. The default widget for this input is SelectMultiple. It normalizes to a Python list of strings which you one can use for multiple purposes....

DateTimeField in Django Forms is a date field, for taking input of date and time from user. The default widget for this input is DateTimeInput. It Normalizes to: A Python datetime.datetime object. It validates that the given value is either a datetime.datetime, datetime.date or string formatted in a particular datetime format. DateTimeField has one optional arguments:...