What this book covers
Chapter 1, Installing Python and Django, and Introducing the Movies Store Application, covers Python and Django installation, and introduces the Movies Store application, showcasing functionalities, class diagrams, and MVT architecture.
Chapter 2, Understanding the Project Structure and Creating our First App, explores Django’s project structure and app creation, and demonstrates how to use Django’s URLs, views, and templates for creating pages.
Chapter 3, Designing a Base Template, explores how Django base templates can be used to reduce duplicated code and improve the look and feel of the Movies Store application.
Chapter 4, Creating a Movies App with Dummy Data, builds a movies app displaying a list of movies using dummy data.
Chapter 5, Working with Models, discusses the fundamentals of Django models and how to work with databases.
Chapter 6, Collecting and Displaying Data from the Database, discusses how to collect and display data from the database.
Chapter 7, Understanding the Database, shows how to inspect the database information and how to switch between database engines.
Chapter 8, Implementing User Signup and Login, discusses the Django authentication system and enhances the Movies Store application with some features to allow users to sign up and log in.
Chapter 9, Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews, enhances the Movies Store application with standard CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on reviews for movies.
Chapter 10, Implementing a Shopping Cart System, covers the use of Django sessions, and how web sessions can be used to implement a shopping cart system.
Chapter 11, Implementing Order and Item Models, explores how invoices work, and creates an Order and Item model to manage the purchase information.
Chapter 12, Implementing the Purchase and Orders Pages, creates purchase and orders pages, and concludes with a recap of the Movies Store’s architecture.
Chapter 13, Deploying the Application to the Cloud, shows how to deploy Django applications on the cloud.
