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Django 5 By Example

You're reading from   Django 5 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125457
Length 820 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Django cache settings

Django provides the following cache settings:

  • CACHES: A dictionary containing all available caches for the project.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS: The cache alias to use for storage.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX: The prefix to use for cache keys. Set a prefix to avoid key collisions if you share the same cache between several sites.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS: The default number of seconds to cache pages.

The caching system for the project can be configured using the CACHES settings. This setting allows you to specify the configuration for multiple caches. Each cache included in the CACHES dictionary can specify the following data:

  • BACKEND: The cache backend to use.
  • KEY_FUNCTION: A string containing a dotted path to a callable that takes a prefix, version, and key as arguments and returns a final cache key.
  • KEY_PREFIX: A string prefix for all cache keys, to avoid collisions.
  • LOCATION: The location of the...
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