Learn Django by building a social network (premium course)

In this course, you will learn Django from scratch by building a social network.

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The project will contain a lot of the typical functionality you see in a social network like users, avatars, posts, feed, likes, comments, direct messages and similar.

Introduction and set up

Title
Length
Status
Introduction
02:01
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Demo
01:29
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Part one - Setting up
03:00
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Part two - Creating the Django project
05:24
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Getting started

Title
Length
Status
Part three - 1 - Creating our first app
02:42
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Part three - 2 - Registering the app
01:45
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Part three - 3 - The base template
03:30
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Part three - 4 - Our first view
03:35
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Part three - 5 - Testing
00:53
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Part three - 6 - The front page
02:02
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Part three - 7 - More content in the base template
02:04
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Part three - 8 - The about page
02:05
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Authentication

Title
Length
Status
Part four - 1 - Create the user profile app
01:13
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Part four - 2 - User profile model
03:17
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Part four - 3 - The sign up form
03:13
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Part four - 4 - The sign up view
03:55
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Part four - 5 - The sign up template
04:40
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Part four - 6 - Logging out
03:07
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Part four - 7 - Logging in
03:05
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My profile

Title
Length
Status
Part five - My profile
11:03
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Posting content

Title
Length
Status
Part six - 1 - Posting content
01:02
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Part six - 2 - The post model
02:36
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Part six - 3 - The post form
01:48
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Part six - 4 - The post view
02:49
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Part six - 5 - Change the front end
02:39
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Part six - 6 - Showing the posts
02:36
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Friends

Title
Length
Status
Part seven - 1 - Finding friends
04:14
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Part seven - 2 - Searching
07:57
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Part eight - 1 - Sending friend requests
09:01
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Part eight - 2 - Accepting friend requests
10:10
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Part nine - View list of friends
06:58
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Avatars

Title
Length
Status
Part ten - 1 - Avatar database model
05:06
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Part ten - 2 - Edit profile page
09:18
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Part ten - 3 - Showing avatars
05:07
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Interacting with posts

Title
Length
Status
Part eleven - Liking posts
12:33
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Part twelve - Adding comments
09:25
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Feed

Title
Length
Status
Part thirteen - 1 - My feed
02:39
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Part thirteen - 2 - Feed backend
05:56
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Part thirteen - 3 - Adding pagination
07:05
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Direct messages

Title
Length
Status
Part fourteen - 1 - The inbox
11:56
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Part fourteen - 2 - Conversation page
18:05
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Refactoring and miscellaneous

Title
Length
Status
Part fifteen - 1 - Moving the hero
01:42
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Part fifteen - 2 - Moving the form
01:01
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Part fifteen - 3 - Moving the comments
01:14
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Part fifteen - 4 - More time since filters
01:46
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Part fifteen - 5 - Moving the post functionality
06:00
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Part sixteen - The admin interface
08:51
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Part seventeen - Miscellaneous stuff
06:16
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Deployment

Title
Length
Status
Part eighteen - 1 - Creating the server
01:33
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Part eighteen - 2 - Logging in
00:33
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Part eighteen - 3 - Installing software
01:55
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Part eighteen - 4 - PostgreSQL
02:15
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Part eighteen - 5 - Virtual environment
03:59
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Part eighteen - 6 - Get project files
02:54
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Part eighteen - 7 - Gunicorn
07:26
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Part eighteen - 8 - Supervisor
02:45
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Part eighteen - 9 - Nginx and testing
07:50
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