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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783986644

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Design Patterns

Author (1):

Arun Ravindran

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Django and Patterns

Why Django?
The story of Django
What is a Pattern?
Patterns in this book
Best practices
Summary

2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER

How to gather requirements
Are you a story teller?
HTML mockups
Designing the application
Before starting the project
SuperBook – your mission, should you choose to accept it
Summary

3. Models

M is bigger than V and C
The model hunt
Structural patterns
Retrieval patterns
Migrations
Summary

4. Views and URLs

A view from the top
Class-based generic views
View mixins
Decorators
View patterns
Designing URLs
Summary

5. Templates

Understanding Django's template language features
Organizing templates
Using Bootstrap
Template patterns
Summary

6. Admin Interface

Using the admin interface
Enhancing models for the admin
Admin interface customizations
Protecting the admin
Summary

7. Forms

How forms work
Displaying forms
Understanding CSRF
Form processing with Class-based views
Form patterns
Summary

8. Dealing with Legacy Code

Finding the Django version
Where are the files? This is not PHP
Starting with urls.py
Jumping around the code
Understanding the code base
Incremental change or a full rewrite?
Write tests before making any changes
Legacy databases
Summary

9. Testing and Debugging

Why write tests?
Test-driven development
Writing a test case
Mocking
Pattern – test fixtures and factories
Learning more about testing
Debugging
The print function
Logging
The Django Debug Toolbar
The Python debugger pdb
Other debuggers
Debugging Django templates
Summary

10. Security

Cross-site scripting (XSS)
A handy security checklist
Summary

11. Production-ready

Production environment
Hosting
Deployment tools
Monitoring
Performance
Summary

A. Python 2 versus Python 3

But I still use Python 2.7!
Python 3
Further information

Index

Chapter 4. Views and URLs

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

Class-based and function-based views
Mixins
Decorators
Common view patterns
Designing URLs

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