Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Getting ready

Let's create a music app that we'll be using throughout this chapter:

1. Create the music app itself and put it under INSTALLED_APPS in the settings:

# myproject/settings/_base.pyINSTALLED_APPS = [    # …    "myproject.apps.core",    "myproject.apps.music",]

2. The Song model there should contain the uuid, artist, title, url, and image fields. We'll also extend CreationModificationDateBase to add creation and modification timestamps, as well as UrlBase to add methods to work with the model's detail URLs:

# myproject/apps/music/models.pyimport osimport uuidfrom django.urls import reversefrom django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _from django.db import modelsfrom django.utils.text import slugifyfrom myproject.apps.core.models ...