README.md

django-history-app

A history management app powered by Django. This app uses Djnago's contenttypes framework to manage different types of pages a user views in your application.

The idea behind this application is to show you a how to achieve better polymorphic relationship between objects of different types using GenericForeignKey.

Use Cases

• History - managing different page objects (eg product and blog post object)
• Shopping Cart - managing different types of products (eg ebook, electronics and furniture objects)

Managing these types of relationship using a ForeignKey could be more difficult and there would be need for you to manage your inheritance and migrations when new types of objects are added.

Link to the tutorial

Learn and understand how to build this app. Watch on YouTube

Installation

Create a folder on your computer then clone this repo with this command:

git clone https://github.com/fleepgeek/django-history-app.git
#Next
cd django-history-app

I used pipenv to create a virtual environment, so you install pipenv globally on your computer:

pip install pipenv

Create a new virtual environment:

pipenv shell

Next, install required packages stored in the Pipfile.lock file using the sync command.

pipenv sync

Then you enter the app directory

cd django_project

After that, you run your migrations:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Finally, run the app

python manage.py runserver

You're good to go ✨