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dennisivy/Django-Course
A practical Django project demonstrating how to build web apps from scratch with authentication, search, pagination, and API support.
Course companion repo for a beginner Django tutorial — a developer portfolio/social site called DevSearch where users share projects, message each other, and rate work. This is study material, not a library or tool you'd actually adopt.
Covers the full Django beginner stack in one place: models, forms, auth, signals, DRF API, and deployment with a Procfile. The project structure is clean enough that a newcomer can follow along without getting lost. Filler data scripts are included, which saves the tedious setup step when working through exercises. Updated to Django 5 as of mid-2024, so the patterns aren't embarrassingly stale.
db.sqlite3 is committed to the repo, which is fine for a tutorial but means you're cloning someone else's development database. The `staticfiles/` directory (compiled output) is also checked in — again, tolerable for a course, sloppy in practice. No tests worth speaking of: `tests.py` exists as a placeholder. The course is paywalled, so the repo alone is missing the explanations that make it useful — you're just staring at finished code without context.