Django in the real world Susan Ibach Christopher Harrison

Susan Ibach @hockeygeekgirl Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Canada Data, code and cloud Longtime MCT Blogs at Canadian Developer Connection Runner and hockey mom @hockeygeekgirl

Christopher Harrison @geektrainer Senior Content Producer - Microsoft Virtual Academy Web guy <3 OSS Long-time Microsoft Certified Trainer Periodic blogger (blog.geektrainer.com) Marathoner, husband, father of one four-legged child @geektrainer

Agenda 1 Creating and managing a Django application 3 Forms and next steps 2 Security

Creating a Django application

Creating a Django application What are we about to create? What are the requirements? Why use Django?

What are we about to create? Application to manage a conference Display sessions, speakers and tracks

What are the requirements? Easy to navigate Partial page updates where appropriate Allow people to submit sessions They must register first Allow conference organizers to easily modify data Manage tracks Approve sessions Host in Azure

Why use Django? Built-in administration page Automatic form generation Easy to manage users and security Minimize code and effort

Installing Python & Django

Creating the project Getting started

Options for creating a Django project Use a Visual Studio template Use django-admin

What is django-admin Command-line utility for managing Django Create applications and apps Manage super users Migrate databases

Why use django-admin It's what the Django people use Ability to use templates Server-side libraries Authentication Security Client-side frameworks Single page apps Bootstrap

Using django-admin and Visual Studio Create empty Django project in Visual Studio Delete everything from the folder (except the proj & sln files) Use django-admin to create the project django-admin startproject <project-name> <containing-folder>

Creating a Django project

Creating the app

Using django-admin to create an app Why? Automatically creates: models.py views.py migrations Usage django-admin startapp <app-name> <folder-name> After creation Include folder in Visual Studio Add app as installed apps in settings.py

Creating a Django app

Creating the models

Object model Title Abstract Session Name Title Bio Speaker Title * Name Title Bio Speaker Title Description Track 1 1

Creating the models

Creating the database

Database management review makemigrations Create a new migration, this creates a package that contains all of the changes to be made to the database based on the code changes in our models sqlmigrate Display the SQL statements that will be applied by a migration migrate Update the database with the specified migration package

Getting the database setup