Are you looking for a project to practice your Django skills? Designing the fundamental interactions of a social network is an instructive way to explore models and relationships while learning advanced Django skills. This week on the show, we talk with previous guest Martin Breuss about his new four-part series, “Build a Social Network With Django”.

Martin talks about the design process and ways to include user-focused features. He shares a handy CSS library to make your front end look modern with minimal effort.

We digress into a discussion of personal vs professional use of social networks. We also talk about the additional Real Python resources to help you build out the rest of your project.

Course Spotlight: How to Set Up a Django Project

In this course, you’ll learn the necessary steps that you’ll need to take to set up a new Django project. You’ll learn the basic setup for any new Django project, which needs to happen before programming the specific functionality of your project.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:46 – Build a Social Network with Django series
00:04:05 – Setting project scope and constraints
00:09:09 – Why use Django for this project?
00:12:23 – Learning through errors
00:15:29 – Sponsor: Honeybadger
00:16:14 – Models and relationships
00:19:05 – Implementing a post-save hook
00:23:17 – Django front end with the Bulma CSS framework
00:28:42 – Templates and profile pages
00:31:03 – Following, posts, and thoughts on user-centric features
00:37:18 – Personal and professional use of social media
00:48:03 – Setting up redirects
00:49:08 – Video Course Spotlight
00:50:19 – Additional Real Python resources for Django, including a Learning Path
00:53:07 – What would you add if this were a portfolio project?
00:54:14 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
00:56:36 – What do you want to learn next?
00:57:54 – Thanks and goodbye

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