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Creating a Movies App with Dummy Data

Currently, our project contains a single application with a couple of sections that display static information. Web applications are more complex. In this chapter, we will learn how to develop more complex applications, such as the movies app. The movies app will serve to list movies and enable users to click on them to display their data on a separate page. For now, we will use dummy data to simulate the movie data.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Creating the movies app
  • Listing movies with dummy data
  • Listing individual movies
  • Adding a link in the base template

By the end, we will know how to create more complex Django apps and how to manage information inside those apps. ...

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