Mastering Django 5.0 & DRF - The Complete Reference Guide

Create a brand new Django app, explore its default files, and link it to the project by updating settings.py and urls.py with a function-based home view.

Create a function based view that returns multiple messages, configure app and project URLs, and test in the browser; learn to place HTML in templates and set a default view.

Create a function based view in django that returns a variable's value as response, using HttpResponse and string concatenation, wired through a url pattern for testing.

Learn to build a function-based view that reads query string values from the request, verifying a get request and retrieving message and country parameters in Django 5.0.

Learn to create and configure a templates folder in Django, move HTML from views to templates, and set the templates directory in settings.py to enable proper template rendering.

Create a Django view to render a template by importing the date time module, preparing today's date, and passing it as context to the template via render.

Debug a Django app inside Visual Studio Code by selecting the virtual environment interpreter, creating a Django launch.json, and running with breakpoints to inspect variables.

Master Django logging by configuring five levels in settings.py and using attributes like asctime, filename, func name, level name, level, lineno, and stack info to diagnose issues.

Create and manage multiple apps within a single Django project, configure app-specific templates and views, and wire app URLs into the project for reusable templates.

Learn to use Django's built-in template tags, focusing on the if tag for conditional rendering and passing a full dictionary to a template via a view.

Explore how to implement the Django built-in if template tag for conditional rendering, using booleans, string comparisons, and operators across templates and views.

Learn to render an array of products in a Django template with the for tag, passing a products list and total count from a view, and display using Bootstrap.

Render product data with Django templates using ul, ol, and form controls—checkboxes, radio buttons, select dropdowns, list boxes, and text inputs—demonstrating data binding and unique IDs.

Explore nested for loops in Django templates to render a processor dropdown with optgroups, mapping categories like AMD and Intel to their processors.

Retrieve data from a REST API with the requests library, pass it to a Django template, and render it in a Bootstrap table showing name, address, and geolocation.

Render multiple user cards using the bootstrap card component by fetching data from the rest api at fake store api.com/users and displaying each user's id, name, and email.