Module 1: Build a legislation reader

Building a basic Django app to display legislation fetched from the Laws.Africa Content API.

In this module we'll cover the following:

• Setting up the basic Django app

• Database models

• Working with the Laws.Africa Content API

• Listing works

• Displaying the content of a document

• Basic interactivity

We'll be following the Django tutorial for setting up an app, but we'll build a legislation reader.

At the end of the module, you should have a working legislation reader app with a legislation listing page and detail pages for each piece of legislation.

We will use:

• Django – for storing and displaying the data

• Python – for extracting data from the API

• Law widgets – a library for styling and working with interactive elements on the page

The complete working code is available in GitHub at https://github.com/laws-africa/legislation-reader.