Build a Weather App With Python and Django

Edit django urls.py by importing path and include, add a lookup.urls inclusion, and prepare to create the first page in the next video.

Learn how to build a Django page by wiring URLs, creating a templates directory with HTML files, and writing views that render templates with the request context.

Utilize Django links to auto update site-wide links when URL patterns change by referencing named URLs from urls.py in templates.

Explore version control fundamentals with Git. Initialize repositories, configure user details, stage and commit changes with descriptive messages, and prepare for pushing to GitHub.

Introduce the Air Now API for current ozone air quality, show color-coded readings, and guide signing up for an API key to access web services.

Learn to build a zip code query URL to fetch current air quality index in JSON, using an API key, and display AQI and category on the app home page.

Learn to map air quality categories to descriptive messages (satisfactory to hazardous) using Python conditionals and HTML, including proper handling of 'unhealthy for sensitive groups'.

Create css classes for the jumbotron—good, moderate, unhealthy, very unhealthy, and hazardous—in a style block near the head, using hex colors, then apply and test.

Pass the category description and color into the Jumbotron div by refactoring the Django view to Python, moving code from the template into the view context.

Set up the Django form to post to the home URL by adding a CSRF token and using the post method, and name the input zip code for backend handling.

Enter a zip code to look up air quality on the map, and observe the color change to yellow as the value hits moderate in Saint Louis and Kirkwood.