URL namespacing in Django - Mini Project: Build & Apply

URL Namespacing in Django

📖 Scenario: You are building a Django website with two apps: blog and shop. Each app has its own set of URLs. To keep URLs organized and avoid conflicts, you will use URL namespacing.

🎯 Goal: Create URL configurations for the blog and shop apps with namespaces, then include them in the main project urls.py. This will allow you to refer to URLs by their namespace and name.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a blog/urls.py file with a URL pattern named post_list.

Create a shop/urls.py file with a URL pattern named product_list.

Add a namespace blog for the blog URLs and shop for the shop URLs.

Include both app URL configurations in the main project/urls.py with their namespaces.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Websites often have multiple apps or sections. Namespacing URLs helps keep them organized and prevents name clashes.

💼 Career

Understanding URL namespacing is essential for Django developers to build scalable and maintainable web applications.

1

Create blog app URL patterns

Create a list called urlpatterns in blog/urls.py with one URL pattern. Use path to map the empty string '' to a view called post_list. Name this URL pattern 'post_list'.

Django

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use path('', views.post_list, name='post_list') inside urlpatterns.

2

Create shop app URL patterns

Create a list called urlpatterns in shop/urls.py with one URL pattern. Use path to map the empty string '' to a view called product_list. Name this URL pattern 'product_list'.

Django

from django.urls import path
from . import views

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use path('', views.product_list, name='product_list') inside urlpatterns.

3

Add namespaces in main urls.py

In the main project/urls.py, import include and path from django.urls. Create a list called urlpatterns that includes the blog URLs with namespace 'blog' and the shop URLs with namespace 'shop'. Use path('blog/', include(('blog.urls', 'blog'), namespace='blog')) and path('shop/', include(('shop.urls', 'shop'), namespace='shop')).

Django

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use include with a tuple of (app.urls, app_name) and namespace.

4

Use namespaced URLs in templates

In a Django template, write two links using the {% url %} tag. One link should use the namespaced URL 'blog:post_list' and the other 'shop:product_list'. Use anchor tags with href attributes set to these URLs.

Django

{# Your code here #}

Need a hint?

Use {% url 'namespace:url_name' %} inside href attributes.