Django Project Blueprints

Link submission

Let's look at what features we want to be related with link submissions. This is just a part of the features list that we saw at the start of the chapter:

• Link submission by users
• Voting on links submitted by other users
• Commenting on the submissions and replying to comments by other users

Let's think about what models we'll need to implement this. First, we need a model to hold information about a single submission, such as the title, URL, who submitted the link, and at what time. Next, we need a way to track votes on submissions by users. This can be implemented by a ManyToMany field from the submission model to the User model. This way, whenever a user votes for a submission, we just add them to the set of related objects and remove ...