App from Django Girls

Django girls walkthrough of a simple blog post application. Tutorial can be found here.

Application to show and add to a list of blog posts.

Geolocation to show you the country/city you're connecting from. You will need to install requests for this app, as I've not put them in requirements.txt

$ pip install requests

Point covered include:

• (blog) a form to add posts
• iterating over a list of posts
• displaying several views (list view, form and post detail)
• using a base template
• adding a model for the posts that are saved in the db
• (geolocation) making an API request and displaying received data

To start this app:

• Pre-req (from requirements.txt):
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
  • (geolocation): $ pip install requests
• Activate virtual env:
  • source .venv/bin/activate
• Make all db migrations:
  • python manage.py makemigrations blog
  • python3 manage.py migrate
• Run server
  • python manage.py runserver