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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230603

Length 764 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (4):

Bharath Chandra K S

Bharath Chandra K S lives in Sydney, Australia, and has over 14 years of software industry experience. He is very passionate about software development on the Python stack, including frameworks such as Flask and Django. He has experience working with both monolithic and microservice architectures and has built various public-facing applications and data processing backend systems. When not cooking up software applications, he likes to cook some nice food.

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Saurabh Badhwar

Saurabh Badhwar is an infrastructure engineer who works on building tools and frameworks that enhance developer productivity. A major part of his work involves using Python to develop services that scale to thousands of concurrent users. He is currently employed at LinkedIn and works on infrastructure performance tools and services.

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw is a software engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a developer for over 14 years and has been building websites with Django since 2007. In that time, his experience has helped many different types of companies, ranging in size from start-ups to large enterprises. He is also interested in machine learning, data science, automating deployments, and DevOps. When not programming, Ben enjoys outdoor sports and spending time with his partner and son.

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Chris Guest

Chris Guest is based in Melbourne and started programming in Python 24 years ago, when it was an obscure academic language. He has since used his Python knowledge in the publishing, hospitality, medical, academic and financial sectors. Throughout his career, he has worked with many Python web development frameworks, including Zope, TurboGears, web2py, and Flask, although he still prefers Django.

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Django

Technical requirements
Scaffolding a Django project and app
Understanding the model-view-template paradigm
Exploring the Django project structure
Introducing Django views
Exploring URL mapping detail
Working with GET, POST, and QueryDict objects
Exploring Django settings
Finding HTML templates in app directories
Debugging and dealing with errors
Activity 1.01 – creating a site welcome screen
Activity 1.02 – a book search scaffold
Summary

2. Chapter 2: Models and Migrations FREE CHAPTER

Technical requirements
Understanding and using databases
Understanding CRUD operations using SQL
Exploring Django ORM
Creating Django models and migrations
Django’s database CRUD operations
Bulk create and bulk update operations
Performing complex lookups using Q objects
Activity 2.01 – creating models for a project management application
Populating the Bookr project’s database
Summary

3. Chapter 3: URL Mapping, Views, and Templates

Technical requirements
Understanding function-based views
Understanding class-based views
URL configuration
Working with Django templates
Summary

4. Chapter 4: An Introduction to Django Admin

Technical requirements
Creating a superuser account
CRUD operations using the Django admin app
Managing Django users and groups
Registering models with the admin app
Customizing the admin interface
Customizing the ModelAdmin classes
Summary

5. Chapter 5: Serving Static Files

Technical requirements
Static file serving
Introduction to Static Files Finder
Generating static URLs with the static template tag
FileSystemFinder
Static file finders – use during collectstatic
STATICFILES_DIRS prefixed mode
The findstatic command
Serving the latest files (for cache invalidation)
Custom storage engines
Summary

6. Chapter 6: Forms

Technical requirements
What is a form?
The Django Forms library
Validating forms and retrieving Python values
Activity 1 – Book Search
Summary

7. Chapter 7: Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms

Technical requirements
Custom field validation and cleaning
Adding placeholders and initial values
Creating or editing Django models
Summary

8. Chapter 8: Media Serving and File Uploads

Technical requirements
Settings for media uploads and serving
File uploads using HTML forms
File uploads with Django forms
Image uploads with Django forms
Serving uploaded (and other) files using Django
ModelForms and file uploads
Activity 8.01 – image and PDF upload of books
Activity 8.02 – displaying the cover and sample link
Summary

9. Chapter 9: Sessions and Authentication

Technical requirements
Middleware
Password storage in Django
Authentication decorators and redirection
Enhancing templates with authentication data
Sessions
Summary

10. Chapter 10: Advanced Django Admin and Customizations

Technical requirements
Customizing the admin site
Adding views to the admin site
Summary

11. Chapter 11: Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views

Technical requirements
Template filters
Custom template filters
String filters
Template tags
Django views
Class-based views
Summary

12. Chapter 12: Building a REST API

Technical requirements
Understanding REST APIs
Django REST framework
Understanding serializers
Activity 12.01 – creating an API endpoint for a top contributors page
Simplifying the code using ViewSets
Implementing authentication
Summary

13. Chapter 13: Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files

Technical requirements
Working with CSV files inside Python
Working with Python’s csv module
Working with Excel files in Python
Working with PDF files in Python
Playing with graphs in Python
Integrating visualizations with Django
Summary

14. Chapter 14: Testing Your Django Applications

Technical requirements
Importance of testing
Automation testing
Testing in Django
Testing Django models
Testing Django views
Django RequestFactory
Test case classes in Django
Activity 14.01 – testing models and views in Bookr
Summary

15. Chapter 15: Django Third-Party Libraries

Technical requirements
Environment variables
django-configurations
dj-database-url
The Django Debug Toolbar
django-crispy-forms
django-allauth
Summary

16. Chapter 16: Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

Technical requirements
JavaScript frameworks
An introduction to JavaScript
JSX – a JavaScript syntax extension
The verbatim template tag
Summary

17. Index

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Who this book is for

This book is for programmers looking to enhance their web development skills using the Django framework. To fully understand the concepts explained in this book, basic knowledge of Python programming as well as familiarity with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, is assumed.