Django 5 By Example
Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch
Antonio Melé
- 820 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Django 5 By Example
Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch
Antonio Melé
About This Book
Build four real-world Django apps and learn Django by doing. Create fully functional web applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, REST APIs, and more!Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.
Key Features
- Updated with Django 5 features, detailed app planning, improved tooling, and GPT prompts for extending projects
- Learn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals, and middleware
- Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, and Memcached into your applications
Book Description
If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you.Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach.You'll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what's new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django.This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
What you will learn
- Use different modules of the Django framework to solve specific problems
- Integrate third-party Django applications into your project
- Build complex web applications using Redis, Postgres, Celery/RabbitMQ, and Memcached
- Set up a production environment for your projects with Docker Compose
- Build a RESTful API with Django Rest Framework (DRF)
- Implement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommendation engines
- Build real-time asynchronous (ASGI) apps with Django Channels and WebSockets
Who this book is for
This book is for readers with basic Python programming 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.
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