Preface
Odoo 14 Development Cookbook, Fourth Edition, is a complete resource that provides various development scenarios to help you build complex business applications with the Odoo framework. Whether you want to customize existing modules, create new ones, or customize the website or backend web client (JS), this book covers every aspect of Odoo development.
With its latest release, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web client framework, OWL (short for Odoo Web Library).
Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (PoS). This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, IoT Box, and deployment.
You will build beautiful websites with Odoo CMS using dynamic building blocks; get to grips with advanced concepts, such as caching, prefetching, and debugging; modify backend JavaScript components and POS with the new OWL framework; connect and access any object in Odoo via Remote Procedure Calls (RPC); manage, deploy, and test an Odoo instance with Odoo.sh; configure IoT Box to add and upgrade POS hardware, and find out how to implement IAP services.
By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll become well versed in development best practices that will come handy when working with the Odoo framework.