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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 2 Web Development Cookbook 100 practical recipes on building scalable Python web apps with Django 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837682
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aidas Bendoraitis Aidas Bendoraitis
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Jake Kronika Jake Kronika
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Structure and Modeling 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Customizing Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Django CMS 9. Hierarchical Structures 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Bells and Whistles 12. Testing and Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Releasing a reusable Django app

The Django documentation has a tutorial on how to package your reusable apps so that they can be installed later, with pip, in any virtual environment; this can be viewed at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/intro/reusable-apps/.

However, there is another (and arguably better) way to package and release a reusable Django app, using the Cookiecutter tool, which creates templates for different coding projects, such as the new Django CMS website, the Flask website, or the jQuery plugin. One of the available project templates is cookiecutter-djangopackage. In this recipe, you will learn how to use it to distribute the reusable likes app.

Getting ready

Install cookiecutter in your virtual environment...

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