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Learn to create fully functional web applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, RESTful APIs, and more
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Key FeaturesImplement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommendation enginesIntegrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Memcached into your applicationsAdd real-time features with Django Channels and WebSocketsBook 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 learnLearn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals and middlewareImplement different modules of the Django framework to solve specific problemsIntegrate third-party Django applications into your projectBuild asynchronous (ASGI) applications with DjangoSet up a production environment for your projectsEasily create complex web applications to solve real use casesWho 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 ContentsBuilding a Blog ApplicationEnhancing Your Blog with Advanced FeaturesExtending Your Blog ApplicationBuilding a Social WebsiteImplementing Social AuthenticationSharing Content on Your WebsiteTracking User ActionsBuilding an Online ShopManaging Payments and OrdersExtending Your ShopAdding Internationalization to Your ShopBuilding an E-learning PlatformCreating a Content Management SystemRendering and Caching ContentBuilding an API Building a Chat Server Going Live
From the Publisher
What’s new in this edition?
This edition has been updated to Python 3.10.6, Django 4.1, and the latest versions of all third-party packages. With almost 200 pages more than the previous edition, new schemas, images, and notes have been added to multiple sections. Deprecated Django features have been replaced, and new material has been added on django-debug-toolbar, the new Redis cache backend, and a new production setup using Docker Compose. Windows support has been improved.
This version features integration with Stripe for the e-commerce application, and JavaScript/AJAX examples have been migrated from jQuery to Vanilla JavaScript and the Fetch API.
Key features: Learn Django 4 by building real-world web applications from scratch using coding best practices Integrate other technologies into your applications, such as JavaScript and Docker Implement advanced functionalities, such as payment processing and a recommendation engine Build real-time ASGI applications and configure a production environment
The Django Request/Response Cycle
Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds, build a comment system, add post tagging and sharing functionalities, support Markdown editing, recommend similar posts, and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL.
blog application
Learn how Django manages the request/response cycle and all the framework modules involved in handling requests. You will understand how Django works from the first pages of the book and build advanced functionalities on top.
social site
Implement social authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, generate image thumbnails, build a bookmarklet with JavaScript and Django, create a user activity stream, implement AJAX requests with JS and Django, develop a user follow system, learn to use Django signals, implement infinite scroll pagination, and build an image ranking with Redis.
production environment
Create a production environment using Docker Compose with Django, Redis, PostgreSQL, Nginx, uWSGI, and Daphne. Use the Django system check framework to check your environment and serve your project securely through HTTPS.
E Learning Platform
Create a content management system that manages users, groups, and permissions. Use model inheritance to manage polymorphic content. Build a REST API using Django REST Framework. Develop a real-time chat using WebSockets and Django Channels. Build custom middleware and implement custom Django management commands.
Ecommerce Application
Build a product catalog and implement a shopping cart using Django sessions. Launch asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications using webhooks. Generate PDF invoices, export orders to CSV, generate custom Django admin actions and views, build a product recommendation engine, and add internationalization to your project.
Publisher : Packt Publishing; 4th edition (August 29, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 766 pages
ISBN-10 : 1801813051
ISBN-13 : 978-1801813051
Item Weight : 2.85 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.73 x 9.25 inches
