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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831345
Length 282 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Preface 1. Django and Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Application Design 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Working Asynchronously 9. Creating APIs 10. Dealing with Legacy Code 11. Testing and Debugging 12. Security 13. Production-Ready 14. Python 2 Versus Python 3 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the admin interface

In a newly generated project, the admin interface is enabled by default. After starting your development server, you will be able to see a login page when you navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

If you have configured a superuser's credentials (or the credentials of any staff user), then you could log into the admin interface, as shown in the following screenshot:

Screenshot of Django administration in a new project

If you have used Django before, you'll notice that the appearance of the admin interface has improved, especially the SVG icons on high-DPI screens. It also uses responsive design, which works across all major mobile browsers.

However, your models will not be visible here, unless you register the model with the admin site. This is defined in your app's admin.py. For instance, in sightings/admin...

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