PUBLISHER'S NOTE: A new edition of this book, updated for Django 5, is now available.
Key Features
- 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
Book 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.
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
Who this book is 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.
Table of Contents
- Building a Blog Application
- Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features
- Extending Your Blog Application
- Building a Social Website
- Implementing Social Authentication
- Sharing Content on Your Website
- Tracking User Actions
- Building an Online Shop
- Managing Payments and Orders
- Extending Your Shop
- Adding Internationalization to Your Shop
- Building an E-learning Platform
- Creating a Content Management System
- Rendering and Caching Content
- Building an API
- Building a Chat Server
- Going Live
Antonio Melé is Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Nucoro, a fintech platform to build, automate and scale digital investment products. Antonio has been developing Django projects since 2006 for clients across several industries. In 2009, he founded Zenx IT, a development company specializing in building digital products. Antonio has worked as a CTO and technology consultant for multiple technology-based start-ups and managed development teams building projects for large digital businesses. Antonio holds an MSc. in computer science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where he mentors early-stage startups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming.
