Updated with Django 5 features, detailed app planning, improved tooling, and GPT prompts for extending projects
Learn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals, and middleware
Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, and Memcached into your applications
Description
If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you.
Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach.
You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django.
This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Who is this book for?
This book is for readers with basic Python programming knowledge and programmers transitioning from other web frameworks who wish to learn Django by doing. If you already use Django, or have in the past, and want to learn best practices and integrate other technologies to scale your applications, then this book is for you too. This book will help you master the most relevant areas of the framework by building practical projects from scratch.
Some previous knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed.
What you will learn
Use different modules of the Django framework to solve specific problems
Integrate third-party Django applications into your project
Build complex web applications using Redis, Postgres, Celery/RabbitMQ, and Memcached
Set up a production environment for your projects with Docker Compose
Build a RESTful API with Django Rest Framework (DRF)
Implement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommendation engines
Build real-time asynchronous (ASGI) apps with Django Channels and WebSockets
I really liked the content of this book and I am benefiting a lot from it for studying this framework.
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Johannes GribNov 5, 2024
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The book have great technical content but is not usable by a blind person with a screen reader. Although the content is readable, I cannot follow the project code because of the layout not showing the indentation when using nvda, jaws or narrator. Using the source code on github only shows the completed project so I can still not follow the projects step by step.
Great book!
Johannes
Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform.
In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
Antonio Melé is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Nucoro, the fintech platform that allows financial institutions to build, automate, and scale digital wealth management products. Antonio is also CTO of Exo Investing, an AI-driven digital investment platform for the UK market. Antonio has been developing Django projects since 2006 for clients across several industries. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a development company specialized in building digital products. He has been working as a CTO and technology consultant for multiple technology-based startups and he has managed development teams building projects for large digital businesses. Antonio holds an MSc. in Computer Science from ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where he mentors early-stage startups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming.
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