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Django 5 By Example

By : Antonio Melé

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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.

Preface

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Building a Blog Application

Building a Blog Application

Installing Python

Creating a Python virtual environment

Installing Django

Django overview

Creating your first project

Creating the blog data models

Creating an administration site for models

Working with QuerySets and managers

Building list and detail views

Creating templates for your views

The request/response cycle

Management commands used in this chapter

Summary

Additional resources

Join us on Discord!

Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features

Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features

Functional overview

Using canonical URLs for models

Creating SEO-friendly URLs for posts

Adding pagination

Building class-based views

Recommending posts by email

Creating a comment system

Summary

Additional resources

Extending Your Blog Application

Extending Your Blog Application

Functional overview

Implementing tagging with django-taggit

Retrieving posts by similarity

Creating custom template tags and filters

Adding a sitemap to the site

Creating feeds for blog posts

Adding full-text search to the blog

Summary

Expanding your project using AI

Additional resources

Building a Social Website

Building a Social Website

Functional overview

Creating a social website project

Using the Django authentication framework

User registration and user profiles

Summary

Additional resources

Join us on Discord!

Implementing Social Authentication

Implementing Social Authentication

Functional overview

Technical requirements

Using the messages framework

Building a custom authentication backend

Adding social authentication to your site

Summary

Additional resources

Sharing Content on Your Website

Sharing Content on Your Website

Functional overview

Creating an image bookmarking website

Posting content from other websites

Creating a detail view for images

Creating image thumbnails using easy-thumbnails

Adding asynchronous actions with JavaScript

Summary

Additional resources

Tracking User Actions

Tracking User Actions

Functional overview

Building a follow system

Creating an activity stream application

Using signals for denormalizing counts

Using Django Debug Toolbar

Counting image views with Redis

Summary

Expanding your project using AI

Additional resources

Building an Online Shop

Building an Online Shop

Functional overview

Creating an online shop project

Building a shopping cart

Registering customer orders

Creating asynchronous tasks

Summary

Additional resources

Join us on Discord!

Managing Payments and Orders

Managing Payments and Orders

Functional overview

Integrating a payment gateway

Exporting orders to CSV files

Extending the administration site with custom views

Generating PDF invoices dynamically

Summary

Additional resources

Extending Your Shop

Extending Your Shop

Functional overview

Creating a coupon system

Building a recommendation engine

Summary

Additional resources

Adding Internationalization to Your Shop

Adding Internationalization to Your Shop

Functional overview

Internationalization with Django

Preparing your project for internationalization

Translating Python code

Translating templates

Using the Rosetta translation interface

Fuzzy translations

URL patterns for internationalization

Allowing users to switch language

Translating models with django-parler

Format localization

Using django-localflavor to validate form fields

Expanding your project using AI

Summary

Additional resources

Building an E-Learning Platform

Building an E-Learning Platform

Functional overview

Setting up the e-learning project

Serving media files

Building the course models

Creating models for polymorphic content

Adding authentication views

Summary

Additional resources

Join us on Discord!

Creating a Content Management System

Creating a Content Management System

Functional overview

Creating a CMS

Managing course modules and their contents

Reordering modules and their contents

Summary

Additional resources

Rendering and Caching Content

Rendering and Caching Content

Functional overview

Displaying the catalog of courses

Adding student registration

Rendering course contents

Using the cache framework

Installing Memcached

Django cache settings

Cache levels

Using the Redis cache backend

Summary

Additional resources

Building an API

Building an API

Functional overview

Building a RESTful API

Consuming the API

Extending serializers

Adding pagination to views

Building the course serializer

Creating nested serializers

Creating ViewSets and routers

Building custom API views

Handling authentication

Adding permissions to views

Adding additional actions to ViewSets

Creating custom permissions

Serializing course contents

Consuming the RESTful API

Summary

Additional resources

Building a Chat Server

Building a Chat Server

Functional overview

Creating a chat application

Real-time Django with Channels

Installing Channels and Daphne

Writing a consumer

Routing

Implementing the WebSocket client

Enabling a channel layer

Modifying the consumer to be fully asynchronous

Persisting messages into the database

Integrating the chat application with existing views

Summary

Additional resources

Going Live

Going Live

Creating a production environment

Using Docker Compose

Serving Django through WSGI and NGINX

Securing your site with SSL/TLS

Configuring Daphne for Django Channels

Creating a custom middleware

Implementing custom management commands

Summary

Expanding your project using AI

Additional resources

Join us on Discord!

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Management commands used in this chapter

In this chapter we have introduced a variety of Django management commands. You need to get familiar with them, as they will be used often throughout the book. Let’s revisit the commands we have covered in this chapter.

To create the file structure for a new Django project named mysite we have used the following command:

django-admin startproject mysite

To create the file structure for a new Django application named blog:

python manage.py startapp blog

To apply all database migrations:

python manage.py migrate

To create migrations for the models of the blog application:

python manage.py makemigrations blog

To view the SQL statements that will be executed with the first migration of the blog application:

python manage.py sqlmigrate blog 0001

To run the Django development server:

python manage.py runserver

To run the development server specifying host/port and settings file:

python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8001 --settings...

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