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Are you a regular Django user? Do you find yourself wanting to decouple your back end and front end? Do you want to handle data persistence in the API while you display the data in a single-page app (SPA) in the browser using a JavaScript framework like React or Vue?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’re in luck. This tutorial will take you through the process of building a Django blog back end and a Vue front end, using GraphQL to communicate between them.

Projects are an effective way to learn and solidify concepts. This tutorial is structured as a step-by-step project so you can learn in a hands-on way and take breaks as needed.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  • Translate your Django models into a GraphQL API
  • Run the Django server and a Vue application on your computer at the same time
  • Administer your blog posts in the Django admin
  • Consume a GraphQL API in Vue to show data in the browser

You can download all the source code you’ll use to build your Django blog application by clicking the link below:

Demo: A Django Blog Admin, a GraphQL API, and a Vue Front End

Blog applications are a common starter project because they involve create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations. In this project, you’ll use the Django admin to do the heavy CRUD lifting and you’ll focus on providing a GraphQL API for your blog data.

You’ll use Vue.js 3 and its composition API for the front end of your blog. Vue lets you create dynamic interfaces pretty smoothly, thanks to its reactive data binding and easy-to-manage components. Plus, since you’re dealing with data from a GraphQL API, you can leverage the Vue Apollo plugin.

Here’s a demonstration of the completed project in action:

Next, you’ll make sure you have all the necessary background information and tools before you dive in and build your blog application.

Project Overview

For this project, you’ll create a small blogging application with some rudimentary features:

  • Authors can write many posts.
  • Posts can have many tags and can be either published or unpublished.

You’ll build the back end of this blog in Django, complete with an admin for adding new blog content. Then you’ll expose the content data as a GraphQL API and use Vue to display that data in the browser.

You’ll accomplish this in several high-level steps. At the end of each step, you’ll find a link to the source code for that stage of the project.

If you’re curious about how the source code for each step looks, then you can click the link below:

Prerequisites

You’ll be best equipped for this tutorial if you already have a solid foundation in some web application concepts. You should understand how HTTP requests and responses and APIs work. You can check out Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data to understand the details of using GraphQL APIs vs REST APIs.

Because you’ll use Django to build the back end for your blog, you’ll want to be familiar with starting a Django project and customizing the Django admin. If you haven’t used Django much before, you might also want to try building another Django-only project first. For a good introduction, check out Get Started with Django Part 1: Build a Portfolio App.

And because you’ll be using Vue on the front end, some experience with JavaScript will also help. If you’ve only used a JavaScript framework like jQuery in the past, the Vue introduction is a good foundation.

Familiarity with JSON is also important because GraphQL queries are JSON-like and return data in JSON format. You can read about Working with JSON Data in Python for an introduction.

Read the full article at https://realpython.com/python-django-blog/ »

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