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Gain insights into Django web development. Learn about setting up URLs, views, templates, user accounts, search filters, styling with Bootstrap, and cloud deployment using AWS and Heroku.

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The focus of this course is to learn Django web development by example. You will be developing a web application step-by-step by setting up URLs, views, and templates of different web pages. The course walks you through various useful concepts to give your app a real look. For example, creating and managing user accounts, implementing search filters, uploading images, Bootstrap styling, and cloud deployment using AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Heroku. 

Every concept is presented with an executable environment so that you get hands-on experience. By the end of the course, you will have a real web application using Django. This is a great course for beginners who want to learn the basics of Django and start building along the way.

Django Takeoff: Developing Modern Applications

# Homepage view

After we create the URL for a specific page, a view for the page also needs to be created.

Add the following code in ***views<span>.py*** in the app’s directory to create the view for the *Homepage*.

from django.shortcuts import render

def index(request):
    return render(request, 'listings/index.html')

The module in **line 1** is used to call different helper functions. We use it here to call render (**line 4**) which helps generate a response that we can render in a template. We'll talk about the template in the next section.

# Homepage template

After we have rendered the request into a template, we need to create a template so that users can see the data being displayed. In Django, these templates are HTML files which display data provided by views.

First, create a folder called ***templates*** inside the app’s directory, and then inside the ***templates*** folder create a folder with the name of the app (i.e., ***listings***). This helps Django interpreter find the templates for the app without any ambiguity. Create a file named ***index.html*** inside of the last folder created. The app's main folder should look like the image below.

Learn how to complete the Homepage implementation by creating a view and template.

Introduction

Django Web App Setup

Django Basics

Homepage

Listings Page

New Listing Page

Navbar

Detail Listing Page

My Listings Page

Edit Listing Page

Delete Listing Page

Users App

Register Page

Foreign Key

Images

Django Filters

Styling the Django Web App

Using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Heroku Deployment

Conclusion

Django Takeoff - Assessment

Appendix

Homepage View and Template

Homepage view