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Federico MaraniPractical Django 2 and Channels 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4099-1_4

4. A Checkout System for Receiving Orders Online

Federico Marani1 
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London, UK
 

Having laid down the database foundations of our project in Chapter 3, in this chapter we are going to build the remaining models on top of that, to store user-generated data. In our case it is a checkout system, which is very important for e-commerce sites.

We are going to cover the following topics:

  • Customizing the User model

  • Registration and login flows

  • CRUD1 views in Django

  • Middleware components

  • Django widgets

  • Displaying complex data in the admin interface

The User Model

Whatever model we are going to create for storing user-generated data will most likely be ...

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