Django 4 By Example: Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch, 4th Edition 4th ed. Edition
by Antonio Mele，Bob Belderbos (Foreword)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing; 4th ed. edition (August 29, 2022)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 764 pages
ISBN-10: 1801813051
ISBN-13: 9781801813051
Book Description
Learn to create fully functional web applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, RESTful APIs, and more
Key Features
Implement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommendation engines
Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Memcached into your applications
Add real-time features with Django Channels and WebSockets
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
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
Who this book is for
This book is for readers with basic Python knowledge and programmers transitioning from other web frameworks who wish to learn Django by doing. If you already use Django or have in the past, and want to learn best practices and integrate other technologies to scale your applications, then this book is for you too. This book will help you master the most relevant areas of the framework by building practical projects from scratch. Some previous knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed.
Table of Contents
Building a Blog Application
Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features
Extending Your Blog Application
Building a Social Website
Implementing Social Authentication
Sharing Content on Your Website
Tracking User Actions
Building an Online Shop
Managing Payments and Orders
Extending Your Shop
Adding Internationalization to Your Shop
Building an E-learning Platform
Creating a Content Management System
Rendering and Caching Content
Building an API
Building a Chat Server
Going Live
