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Django 4 By Example

Django 4 By Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 4 By Example

Django 4 By Example

4.7 (44)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

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.
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Adding asynchronous actions with JavaScript

We are going to add a like button to the image detail page to let users click on it to like an image. When users click the like button, we will send an HTTP request to the web server using JavaScript. This will perform the like action without reloading the whole page. For this functionality, we will implement a view that allows users to like/unlike images.

The JavaScript Fetch API is the built-in way to make asynchronous HTTP requests to web servers from web browsers. By using the Fetch API, you can send and retrieve data from the web server without the need for a whole page refresh. The Fetch API was launched as a modern successor to the browser built-in XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object, used to make HTTP requests without reloading the page. The set of web development techniques to send and retrieve data from a web server asynchronously without reloading the page is also known as AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX...

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