🐍 Build Your First Django Website: Day 8

Now that you have a database, let’s bring it to life! Today, we’ll fetch data from the database and display it dynamically on your website. This is where your site starts feeling real.

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Day 8: Display Data from the Database

Today, we’ll fetch data from the database and display it on your site.

1. Update the View

Modify home in blog/views.py to get posts from the database:

2. Update the Template

In blog/templates/blog/blog_home.html, loop through the posts and display them:

3. Next Step

Tomorrow, we’ll look at Django’s built-in admin interface to manage the data!

🏆 Final Thoughts

If you missed out on the previous step, head on over to this post.

If you want to see an overview of all of the steps, check out this post.

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Happy coding! 🚀🐍

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