National Parks

The National Park Service was created in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson in order to preserve America's natural and historic scenery. The NPS oversees over 400 units of preserves, monuments, battlefields, and parks. 59 of these units are officially designated as National Parks.

Let's create an app to showcase these wonderful parks.

Getting Started

Fork and clone this repository Follow the recommended process for creating your Django app.

Components

Models

A Park model that stores the following attributes. Choose the appropriate data types for each (string or text)

name
description
picture (for now, have this store a URL to a picture of a park)

Controllers

A controller for your home page
A controller for your Park model

Routes and Views

Route	Description	Controller	Action/View
GET /	Your home page	home	index
GET /parks	list all parks	parks	index
GET /parks/new	show add park form	parks	new
POST /parks	create park	parks	create (no view)
GET /parks/1	list park (id=1)	parks	show
GET /parks/2/edit	show edit park form (id=2)	parks	edit
PUT /parks/3	update an existing park (id=3)	parks	update (no view)
DELETE /parks/3	delete an existing park (id=3)	parks	destroy (no view)

Recommended Process

Create basic app

fork and clone this repo
cd into the directory
create Django project django-admin startproject parks_site
create app in project python3 manage.py parks
run the server! python3 manage.py runserver

Build Specific Functionality

Define a view in parks/views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
  return HttpResponse("This will become a list of all Parks.")

Create a route in the parks app parks/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
]

Attach the parks app to the main site by defining how URLs are routed to it in parks_site/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^parks/', include('parks.urls')),
  url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Run the server and verify that everything is wired up correctly by visiting http://localhost:8000/parks/

Styling

Style the pages. Play around with adding a navigation bar or carousels.
If using Bootstrap, use the Bootstrap form helper. Makes Bootstrap forms easily.

Bonuses

Create a seed file to load some National Parks
Replace the URL links with Cloudinary uploads.

Licensing

All content is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
All software code is licensed under GNU GPLv3. For commercial use or alternative licensing, please contact legal@ga.co.

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