Library Management with Frappe Framework

Beginner

Python

In this guide, you will learn how to use the Frappe framework by creating a Library Management App

Instructors:

Faris Ansari

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Frappe, pronounced fra-pay, is a full stack, batteries-included, web framework written in Python and Javascript with MariaDB as the database. It is the framework which powers ERPNext. It is pretty generic and can be used to build database driven apps.

The key difference in Frappe compared to other frameworks is that meta-data is also treated as data and is used to build front-ends very easily. We believe in a monolithic architecture, so Frappe comes with almost everything you need to build a modern web application. It has a full featured Admin UI called the Desk that handles forms, navigation, lists, menus, permissions, file attachment and much more out of the box.

Frappe is MIT Licensed and is hosted on GitHub.

Course Content

Prerequisites

A list of resources to help you get started with building apps using Frappe.

Python

MariaDB / Postgres

HTML / CSS

JavaScript / jQuery

Jinja Templating

Git / GitHub

Assignment

Now that you have completed this tutorial and created the Library Management App using the Frappe Framework, its time you create an app on your own

Accounting App

Features

Introduction

Who is this for? What are we building?

Who is this for?

What are we building?

Install and Setup Bench

Bench is the command line tool to manage Frappe apps and sites.

Installation

Create the frappe-bench directory

Directory Structure

Start the Bench Server

Create an App

Create a frappe app scaffold using the bench CLI.

Create app

App directory structure

Form Scripts

Quiz Time

This quiz has a few basic questions on what we have learned so far. It will give you an idea of how well you have understood the lessons.

Practice

Types of DocType

Create a Site

Create a DocType

DocType is analogous to a Model in other frameworks. Apart from defining properties, it also defines the behavior of the Model.

Enable Developer Mode

Creating a DocType

What happened when you created the Article DocType?

Portal Pages

Portal pages are server rendered pages for your website visitors.

Portal Pages

Customize Web View Template

What's Next?

The goal of this tutorial was to give an introduction to the various parts of the framework. We have only scratched the surface here. Frappe Framework has a lot more features that have enabled us to build complex software such as ERPNext.

What's Next?

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Controller Methods