Preface

• Who this book is for
• What this book covers
• To get the most out of this book
• Share your thoughts

1. Building a Blog Application

• Installing Python
• Creating a Python virtual environment
• Installing Django
• Django overview
• Creating your first project
• Creating the blog data models
• Creating an administration site for models
• Working with QuerySets and managers
• Building list and detail views
• Creating templates for your views
• The request/response cycle
• Management commands used in this chapter
• Summary
• Additional resources
• Join us on Discord!

2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features FREE CHAPTER

• Functional overview
• Using canonical URLs for models
• Creating SEO-friendly URLs for posts
• Adding pagination
• Building class-based views
• Recommending posts by email
• Creating a comment system
• Summary
• Additional resources

3. Extending Your Blog Application

• Functional overview
• Implementing tagging with django-taggit
• Retrieving posts by similarity
• Creating custom template tags and filters
• Adding a sitemap to the site
• Creating feeds for blog posts
• Adding full-text search to the blog
• Summary
• Expanding your project using AI
• Additional resources

4. Building a Social Website

• Functional overview
• Creating a social website project
• Using the Django authentication framework
• User registration and user profiles
• Summary
• Additional resources
• Join us on Discord!

5. Implementing Social Authentication

• Functional overview
• Technical requirements
• Using the messages framework
• Building a custom authentication backend
• Adding social authentication to your site
• Summary
• Additional resources

6. Sharing Content on Your Website

• Functional overview
• Creating an image bookmarking website
• Posting content from other websites
• Creating a detail view for images
• Creating image thumbnails using easy-thumbnails
• Adding asynchronous actions with JavaScript
• Summary
• Additional resources

7. Tracking User Actions

• Functional overview
• Building a follow system
• Creating an activity stream application
• Using signals for denormalizing counts
• Using Django Debug Toolbar
• Counting image views with Redis
• Summary
• Expanding your project using AI
• Additional resources

8. Building an Online Shop

• Functional overview
• Creating an online shop project
• Building a shopping cart
• Registering customer orders
• Creating asynchronous tasks
• Summary
• Additional resources
• Join us on Discord!

9. Managing Payments and Orders

• Functional overview
• Integrating a payment gateway
• Exporting orders to CSV files
• Extending the administration site with custom views
• Generating PDF invoices dynamically
• Summary
• Additional resources

10. Extending Your Shop

• Functional overview
• Creating a coupon system
• Building a recommendation engine
• Summary
• Additional resources

11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop

• Functional overview
• Internationalization with Django
• Preparing your project for internationalization
• Translating Python code
• Translating templates
• Using the Rosetta translation interface
• Fuzzy translations
• URL patterns for internationalization
• Allowing users to switch language
• Translating models with django-parler
• Format localization
• Using django-localflavor to validate form fields
• Expanding your project using AI
• Summary
• Additional resources

12. Building an E-Learning Platform

• Functional overview
• Setting up the e-learning project
• Serving media files
• Building the course models
• Creating models for polymorphic content
• Adding authentication views
• Summary
• Additional resources
• Join us on Discord!

13. Creating a Content Management System

• Functional overview
• Creating a CMS
• Managing course modules and their contents
• Reordering modules and their contents
• Summary
• Additional resources

14. Rendering and Caching Content

• Functional overview
• Displaying the catalog of courses
• Adding student registration
• Rendering course contents
• Using the cache framework
• Installing Memcached
• Django cache settings
• Cache levels
• Using the Redis cache backend
• Summary
• Additional resources

15. Building an API

• Functional overview
• Building a RESTful API
• Consuming the API
• Extending serializers
• Adding pagination to views
• Building the course serializer
• Creating nested serializers
• Creating ViewSets and routers
• Building custom API views
• Handling authentication
• Adding permissions to views
• Adding additional actions to ViewSets
• Creating custom permissions
• Serializing course contents
• Consuming the RESTful API
• Summary
• Additional resources

16. Building a Chat Server

• Functional overview
• Creating a chat application
• Real-time Django with Channels
• Installing Channels and Daphne
• Writing a consumer
• Routing
• Implementing the WebSocket client
• Enabling a channel layer
• Modifying the consumer to be fully asynchronous
• Persisting messages into the database
• Integrating the chat application with existing views
• Summary
• Additional resources

17. Going Live

• Creating a production environment
• Using Docker Compose
• Serving Django through WSGI and NGINX
• Securing your site with SSL/TLS
• Configuring Daphne for Django Channels
• Creating a custom middleware
• Implementing custom management commands
• Summary
• Expanding your project using AI
• Additional resources
• Join us on Discord!

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index