Why I Joined HNG11 and How I Solved a Recent Backend Problem

My name is Taiwo Adetunji, I am a software engineer. Everyday, I am taking a step towards becoming one of the world's best software engineer. I want to build products, amazing products that would make people's lives easier, products that would be used by millions of people worldwide.
That is one of the reasons why I joined HNG11, a drive to my final goal. Like every other journey towards success, I know the internship might not be a smooth ride, but I will persevere and emerge 10 times better and skilled.

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HOW I SOLVED A RECENT BACKEND PROBLEM

I am working on a platform that connects students in campus areas that searching for accommodation to house agents and landlords. I need agents to be able to upload pictures of accommodations.
I had no idea serving static files in django required extra settings, so here is how i solved this problem.

Django is designed to handle dynamic contents, so to serve static files we need to configure django to do this.

In your settings.py file

Import os

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STATIC_URL = "static/"
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"), # your static/ files folder
]

In your urls.py, add these lines

 Add +static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
urlpatterns = [
    # ...  ...
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

Finally, In your templates, use the static template tag to build the URL

{% load static %}
<img src="{% static 'images/image.jpg' %}" alt="My image">

I was able to display images in my web app following this steps.

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