Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach.
You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps:
A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL.
A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website.
An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV.
An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose.
This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Learn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals and middleware
Implement different modules of the Django framework to solve specific problems
Integrate third-party Django applications into your project
Build asynchronous (ASGI) applications with Django
Set up a production environment for your projects
Easily create complex web applications to solve real use cases
* Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Memcached into your applications
* Add real-time features with Django Channels and WebSockets