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Django Project Blueprints
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About This Book
Develop stunning web application projects with the Django framework
About This Book
- Build six exciting projects and use them as a blueprint for your own work
- Extend Django's built-in models and forms to add common functionalities into your project, without reinventing the wheel
- Gain insights into the inner workings of Django to better leverage it
Who This Book Is For
If you are a Django web developer able to build basic web applications with the framework, then this book is for you. This book will help you gain a deeper understanding of the Django web framework by guiding you through the development of seven amazing web applications.
What You Will Learn
- Create a blogging platform and allow users to share posts on different blogs
- Prioritise user-submitted content with an intelligent ranking algorithm based on multiple factors
- Create REST APIs to allow non-browser based usage of your web apps
- Customize the Django admin to quickly create a full-featured and rich content management system
- Use Elasticsearch with Django to create blazing fast e-commerce websites
- Translate your Django applications into multiple languages
- Dive deep into Django forms and how they work internally
In Detail
Django is a high-level web framework that eases the creation of complex, database-driven websites. It emphasizes on the reusability and pluggability of components, rapid development, and the principle of don't repeat yourself. It lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications quickly.
There are several Django tutorials available online, which take as many shortcuts as possible, but leave you wondering how you can adapt them to your own needs. This guide takes the opposite approach by demonstrating how to work around common problems and client requests, without skipping the important details. If you have built a few Django projects and are on the lookout for a guide to get you past the basics and to solve modern development tasks, this is your book.
Seven unique projects will take you through the development process from scratch, leaving no stone unturned. In the first two projects, you will learn everything from adding ranking and voting capabilities to your App to building a multiuser blog platform with a unique twist. The third project tackles APIs with Django and walks us through building a Nagios-inspired infrastructure monitoring system. And that is just the start!
The other projects deal with customizing the Django admin to create a CMS for your clients, translating your web applications to multiple languages, and using the Elasticsearch search server with Django to create a high performing e-commerce web site. The seventh chapter includes a surprise usage of Django, and we dive deep into the internals of Django to create something exciting!
When you're done, you'll have consistent patterns and techniques that you can build on for many projects to come.
Style and approach
This easy-to-follow guide is full of examples that will take you through building six very different web applications with Django. The code is broken down into manageable bites and then thoroughly explained.
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Django Project Blueprints
Table of Contents
Django Project Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Blueblog â a Blogging Platform
The contrib packages
Setting up our development environment
Database settings
Static files settings
A base template
User accounts
A user accounts app
Account registration
Generic views
Template and URLs
Login and logout
The login view
The logout view
Navigation links
The blog
Models
Creating a blog view
The home page
The blog settings view
Creating and editing blog posts
Editing blog posts
Viewing blog posts
Multiple users
Security
Sharing blog post
Summary
2. Discuss â a Hacker News Clone
Chapter code packs
Requirements
Starting out
Link submission
Comments
Voting
Ranking submission
Spam protection
Summary
3. Djagios â a Nagios Clone in Django
Code pack
Requirements
The model
Fake data generation
Django management commands
A better model representation
Status page
Alerts
The model
Management views
Showing triggered alerts on the status page
Accepting data from remote systems
Testing API endpoints
Summary
4. A Car Rental App
Code pack
Fixtures
Image and File fields
get_absolute_url
The Django admin app
Showing the car names
Booking management
A peek behind the curtain
Improving the user experience
Filtering objects
Searching for objects
Quick edit
Admin actions
UX improvements
Summary
5. Multilingual Movie Database
Requirements
Getting the project up and running
Translating our static content
How did all that work?
Letting the user decide which language to use
Persisting the user choice
Translating our models
Summary
6. Daintree â an E-commerce Site
Code pack
Exploring Elasticsearch
First steps with Elasticsearch
Searching from Python
Mapping
Defining a mapping
Inserting documents into Elasticsearch from Python
Getting all our data into Elasticsearch
Adding search
Configuration management
More search options
Aggregations and filters
Category aggregation
Full text search and analysis
Searching with aggregations
Summary
7. Form Mason â a Monkey of your own
Code pack
Looking at a Django form
Adding an extra field to a SampleForm instance
Generating dynamic forms
Generating a form out of JSON
A model for our JSON
Creating a better user interface
Saving the responses
Showing the responses
An improved responses list
Designing a form creation interface
Small fixes
Summary
A. Development Environment Setup Details and Debugging Techniques
Using pdb to debug Django views
Developing on Windows
Index
Django Project Blueprints
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Author
Asad Jibran Ahmed
Reviewer
Jaakko Tulkki
Commissioning Editor
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About the Author
Asad Jibran Ahmed is an experienced programmer who has worked mostly with Django-based web applications for the past 5 years. Based in Dubai, UAE, he has worked with some of the biggest web properties in the region, including Dubizzle, the number one classifieds platform in UAE; Nabbesh, one of the top freelancing platforms in the MENA region; and Just Property, a hot and rising name in the property portal space of the region.
His experience with such big names has given him a keen insight into how to design performant, stable, and user friendly web applications, all the while using programming practices that make sure that the code base is maintainable for years.
About the Reviewer
Jaakko Tulkki is currently based in Madrid, Spain, where he is working as a Python developer. He has also worked in start-ups. Jaakko is currently finalizing his MSc degree in software engineering. Python is one of his favorite tools because he finds it a very productive language.
Jaakko works for Sainsbury's in Manchester, UK.
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Preface
Django is perhaps one of the most popular web development frameworks out there today. It is the framework that most Python developers reach for when they have any sizeable web application to develop.
With its proven track record of performance, scalability, and security, and its famous batteries-included approach, Django is used by some of the biggest names in the industry, including Instagram, Pinterest, and National Geographic.
This book is intended for people who have had a passing introduction to Django and a very basic idea of how to create a simple website with it. It will show you how to take your skills to the next level, developing applications as complex as e-commerce sites with lightning-fast search.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Blueblog â A Blogging Platform, gets you started with Django and introduces the basic concepts of how to use the framework. It also introduces you to the development techniques used in the ...
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