Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the Pillow and django-imagekit libraries. Let's install them in the virtual environment using the following commands:

(env)$ pip install Pillow(env)$ pip install django-imagekit

Make sure that django.contrib.admin and imagekit are in INSTALLED_APPS in the settings:

# myproject/settings/_base.pyINSTALLED_APPS = [   # …   "django.contrib.admin",   "imagekit",]

Then, hook up the admin site in the URL configuration, as follows:

# myproject/urls.pyfrom django.contrib import adminfrom django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patternsfrom django.urls import include, pathurlpatterns = i18n_patterns(    # …    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),)

Next, create a new products app and put it under INSTALLED_APPS. This app will contain ...