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
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.
Who is this book 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.
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
This book does a great job of walking the reader step-by-step through through several sizeable Django projects. I did not have any background in Django prior to reading this and found it fairly easy to contextually figure a lot of things out. This is a great resource for anyone who learns by doing or just wants to build some larger scale projects than what most introductory books on Django would deal with.
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MaeSep 21, 2022
5
The media could not be loaded. This book is the most practical resource to learn Django. The book teaches you Django by building 4 complete projects that include integration with other technologies like Redis, Celery, Memcached and multiple Python libraries and third-party Django applications.This book does the best job covering the basics of Django and much more than that. The book is easy to follow but assumes you some basic Python and web development knowledge (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). I love the examples to create a recommendation engine, a Facebook-like user activity feed and real-time async chat application using channels.
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A. J. SalazarSep 02, 2022
5
With a wide range of practical applications and in depth code implementation, this book is a must-have for the aspiring Django pros.
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Nina OrtegaDec 19, 2022
5
For people like me, who learn best from reading instructions, this is the perfect all-inclusive, detailed, and clear manual on how to learn and code with Django.Although the technical jargon can be difficult at the beginning it is worth the effort.Definitely something worth spending money on.
Antonio Melé is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Nucoro, the fintech platform that allows financial institutions to build, automate, and scale digital wealth management products. Antonio is also CTO of Exo Investing, an AI-driven digital investment platform for the UK market. Antonio has been developing Django projects since 2006 for clients across several industries. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a development company specialized in building digital products. He has been working as a CTO and technology consultant for multiple technology-based startups and he has managed development teams building projects for large digital businesses. Antonio holds an MSc. in Computer Science from ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where he mentors early-stage startups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming.
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