Chapter 4. Socializer – the Testable Timeline

In this chapter we will build our next application with the codename: Socializer. This application will provide you with a very typical timeline feed, whose variations grace many well-known modern web applications.

This application will allow authenticated users to follow others, and be followed by other users, and display content posted from the followed users in a time-ordered fashion. Along with building the basic features required of a timeline-based application, we will implement additional behaviors using the excellent Blinker library for in-process publish/subscribe signals that will allow us to decouple the application into more compassable, reusable parts.

Additionally, Socializer will be built ...

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