Django: Web Development with Python

Implementing the Like widget

Nowadays, social websites usually have integrated Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ widgets to like and share pages. In this recipe, I will guide you through a similar internal liking Django app that saves all the likes in your database so that you can create specific views based on the things that are liked on your website. We will create a Like widget with a two-state button and badge showing the number of total likes. The following are the states:

• Inactive state, where you can click on a button to activate it:
  
• Active state, where you can click on a button to deactivate it:

The state of the widget will be handled by Ajax ...