Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

You can now use the {% like_widget for object %} template tag for any object in your website. It generates a widget that will show the Like state based on whether and how the current logged-in user has responded to the object.

The Like button has three custom HTML5 data attributes:

• data-href supplies a unique, object-specific URL to change the current state of the widget
• data-add-text is the translated text to be displayed when the Like association has been added (Unlike)
• data-remove-text is similarly the translated text for when the Like association has been removed (Like)

Using django-sekizai, we add the <script src="{% static 'likes/js/widget.js' %}"></script> to the page. Note that, if there were more than one Like