Tweetme | Build a Twitter-like app step by step with Django (Udemy.com)
Learn Django 1.10, jQuery, and Bootstrap step by step by building a real project that works like Twitter!
Created by: Justin Mitchel
Produced in 2016
What you will learn
- Build a real service like Twitter.com
- A deeper understanding of Django
- Build projects that rely on an API using the Django Rest Framework
- Working with AJAX and jQuery
- Auto-generate hashtags and hashtag filter (#yourtag)
- Build projects using Django 1.10
- Integrate Bootstrap (getbootstrap.com) as a front end framework
Quality Score
Overall Score : 88 / 100
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Course Description
In this course we're going to teach you what's behind how Twitter works. Now, Twitter has hundreds of developers so what we're actually building is the basis of what Twitter once was, the absolute most simple things by learning more Django along the way.
What are we going to learn:
Ajax +jQuery to "Tweet" messagesTag users directly (@user)Use Hashtags (#newtag)Integrate BootstrapUsing an Ajaxform within a Bootstrap ModalDjango Rest FrameworkFollow users (via Ajax)Like posts(via Ajax)Retweet posts(via Ajax)Class Based ViewsCustom Template TagsCounting characters in a formBasic RegistrationAnd much more!
We do everything step-by-step so even if you're an absolute beginner, you can follow along. Cheers!
Who this course is for:
EntrepreneursPython programmers (new ones included)Django developersAnyone looking to build a real projectMotivated would-be developers
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
166 Reviews
Justin Mitchel
It all started with an idea. I wanted freedom... badly. Freedom from work, freedom from boredom, and, most of all, the freedom to choose. This simple idea grew to define me; it made me become an entrepreneur.
As I strived to gain freedom, overtime I realized that with everything that you do you can either (1) convince someone, somehow, to do it with you or (2) figure out how to do it yourself.
Due to a lack of financial resources (and probably the ability to convince people to do high quality work for free), I decided to learn. Then learn some more. Then some more. My path of learning website design started a long time ago. And yes, it was out of need not desire. I believed I needed a website for a company that I started. So I learned how to do it. The company died, my skills lived on... and got better and better.
It took me a while after learning web design (html/css) to actually start learning programming (web application, storing "data", user logins, etc). I tinkered with Wordpress, believing it could be a "user" site, but I was mistaken. Sure there are/were hacks for that, but they were hacks/work-arounds and simply not-what-wordpress-was-indended-to-be. Wordpress is for blogs/content. Plain and simple.
I wanted more. I had a web application idea that I thought would change the way restaurants hire their service staff. I tested it with my basic html/css skills, had great initial results, and found a technical (pr


