USER STORY: Installing Django-crispy-forms

[chris-townsend]

User Story:

As a developer, I should install the necessary Django components so that I can display a comments section that is more appealing to the user

Acceptance Criteria:

• Forms should have the crispy tag present.

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Tasks:

• Install pip3 install django-crispy-forms
• Update requirements.txt - pip3 freeze --local > requirements.txt
• Update INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py
  • Add crispy_forms
• Add CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap4' below INSTALLED_APPS
• Add a new folder forms.py
  • Import relevant data from .models import Comment from django import form
• In views.py file import from .forms import CommentForm
• Render as a view
• Add the form to the HTML file
  • Add security to all forms {% csrf_token %} (cross site request forgery)
• Add post data to views.py