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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 5 By Example

Django 5 By Example

4.6 (40)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

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.
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The request/response cycle

Let’s review the request/response cycle of Django with the application we built. The following schema shows a simplified example of how Django processes HTTP requests and generates HTTP responses:

Figure 1.19: The Django request/response cycle

Let’s review the Django request/response process:

  1. A web browser requests a page by its URL, for example, https://domain.com/blog/33/. The web server receives the HTTP request and passes it over to Django.
  2. Django runs through each URL pattern defined in the URL patterns configuration. The framework checks each pattern against the given URL path, in order of appearance, and stops at the first one that matches the requested URL. In this case, the pattern /blog/<id>/ matches the path /blog/33/.
  3. Django imports the view of the matching URL pattern and executes it, passing an instance of the HttpRequest class and the keyword or positional arguments. The view uses the models to retrieve information from...

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