If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django, then this book is for you. In the process of building four professional Django projects, you will learn about Django 3 features, how to solve common web development problems, how to implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications.
In this book, you will build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Step-by-step guidance will teach you how to integrate popular technologies, enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered Django 3 by building advanced web applications.
publication date
2020-03-31
what you will learn
Build real-world web applications
Learn Django essentials, including models, views, ORM, templates, URLs, forms, and authentication
Implement advanced features such as custom model fields, custom template tags, cache, middleware, localization, and more
Create complex functionalities, such as AJAX interactions, social authentication, a full-text search engine, a payment system, a CMS, a RESTful API, and more
Integrate other technologies, including Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Channels, into your projects
Deploy Django projects in production using NGINX, uWSGI, and Daphne
key features
Learn Django 3 by building real-world web applications from scratch in Python, using coding best practices * Integrate other technologies into your application with clear, step-by-step explanations and comprehensive example code * Implement advanced functionalities like a full-text search engine, a user activity stream, or a recommendation engine * Add real-time features with Django Channels and WebSockets
approach
Django 3 By Example, Third Edition, helps you learn web development with Python from scratch. With four hands-on examples, this book adopts a ‘learning by doing’ approach to practically explain the Django framework’s functionalities.
audience
This book is intended for developers with Python knowledge who wish to learn Django in a pragmatic way. Perhaps you are completely new to Django, or you already know a little but you want to get the most out of it. This book will help you to master the most relevant areas of the framework by building practical projects from scratch. You need to have familiarity with programming concepts in order to read this book. Some previous knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed.
short description
Django 3 By Example, Third Edition, explores key Django features and best practices that every Python web developer should be aware of. This third edition is fully updated for Django 3 and a new chapter on Django Channels for real-time features has been added. Much more than just a reference guide, this book shows you how Django works in the real world. This book also shows you best practices and how to integrate other popular technologies, such as Redis, Celery, or Memcached into your Django projects.
subtitle
Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch
keywords
Django 3; python web apps; REST API; Django python; web development; web framework
Product ISBN
9781838981952
