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Django 2 by Example

Django 2 by Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 2 by Example

Django 2 by Example

4.3 (21)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django 2, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django 2 projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and set up a production environment for your Django 2 projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django 2 and how to build advanced web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
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1
Building a Blog Application
Building a Blog Application
Installing Django
Creating your first project
Designing the blog data schema
Creating an administration site for your models
Working with QuerySet and managers
Building list and detail views
Creating templates for your views
Adding pagination
Using class-based views
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2
Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features
Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features
Sharing posts by email
Creating a comment system
Adding the tagging functionality
Retrieving posts by similarity
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3
Extending Your Blog Application
Extending Your Blog Application
Creating custom template tags and filters
Adding a sitemap to your site
Creating feeds for your blog posts
Adding full-text search to your blog
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4
Building a Social Website
Building a Social Website
Creating a social website project
Using the Django authentication framework
User registration and user profiles
Building a custom authentication backend
Adding social authentication to your site
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5
Sharing Content in Your Website
Sharing Content in Your Website
Creating an image bookmarking website
Posting content from other websites
Creating a detail view for images
Creating image thumbnails using sorl-thumbnail
Adding AJAX actions with jQuery
Creating custom decorators for your views
Adding AJAX pagination to your list views
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6
Tracking User Actions
Tracking User Actions
Building a follower system
Building a generic activity stream application
Using signals for denormalizing counts
Using Redis for storing item views
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7
Building an Online Shop
Building an Online Shop
Creating an online shop project
Building a shopping cart
Registering customer orders
Launching asynchronous tasks with Celery
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8
Managing Payments and Orders
Managing Payments and Orders
Integrating a payment gateway
Exporting orders to CSV files
Extending the admin site with custom views
Generating PDF invoices dynamically
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9
Extending Your Shop
Extending Your Shop
Creating a coupon system
Adding internationalization and localization
Building a recommendation engine
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10
Building an E-Learning Platform
Building an E-Learning Platform
Setting up the e-learning project
Building the course models
Creating models for diverse content
Creating a CMS
Managing course modules and content
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11
Rendering and Caching Content
Rendering and Caching Content
Displaying courses
Adding student registration
Accessing the course contents
Using the cache framework
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12
Building an API
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Building an API
Building a RESTful API
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13
Going Live
Going Live
Creating a production environment
Creating a custom middleware
Implementing custom management commands
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Building an API

In the previous chapter, you built a system of student registration and enrollment in courses. You created views to display course contents and learned how to use Django's cache framework. In this chapter, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Build a RESTful API
  • Handle authentication and permissions for API views
  • Create API view sets and routers
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