About the tutorial

This tutorial guides you through building a small Django application that lets a user read and interact with legislation loaded from the Laws.Africa Content API.

The functionality includes:

• Fetching and storing legislation from the Laws.Africa Content API

• Listing legislation

• A legislation detail page with a Table of Contents and well-styled text

• Interactivity and enrichments using the Laws.Africa Law Widgets

The tutorial is divided into three modules:

1. Module 1: building a the app basics; data modelling; fetching and storing data; listing legislation; reading and styling legislation

2. Module 2: basic and advanced enrichments and interactivity

3. Module 3: extracting text from Akoma Ntoso XML for full-text search and machine learning

The full code for the Django app is available at https://github.com/laws-africa/legislation-reader

Let's get started!