Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about three advanced concepts in Django. We have learned about the different concepts of pagination and how Django and DRF make use of pagination to improve the RESTful APIs. Next, we learned about the concept of Django signals and how Django provides out-of-the-box signals to decouple different application logic. Django also provides the interface to extend custom signals. Lastly, we learned about the Django middleware concepts. Django middleware is used to modify request/response objects. We also learned how to create custom middleware and use it in our Django project.

In this chapter, we have learned all the advanced concepts of Django that any developer should be comfortable implementing, in order to write scalable Django applications.

In the next chapter, we will focus on learning about distributed task queue programming with Django. Celery is one of the most popular Python frameworks that is used along with Django to implement long...