Django By Example

by Antonio Melé

Create your own line of successful web applications with Django If you are a web developer who is completely new to or familiar with Django and wants to make the most of it, this book is for you. Some basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and JavaScript is recommended. Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly, from simple prototypes to large-scale projects. Django encourages clean, pragmatic design, and provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools to build scalable web applications. This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. The book begins by showing you how to build a blog application, before moving on to developing a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. You will learn how to build a search engine and implement a user activity stream. Furthermore, you will create a recommendation engine, an e-commerce coupon system and a content management system. The book will also teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and setup a production environment for your Django projects. After reading this book, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how to integrate it with other technologies to build practical, advanced, web applications. This is an easy-to-follow guide to building four different production-ready Django projects. Each project focuses on a particular area of the framework and each topic within the projects is explained with practical examples and includes best practice recommendations.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science

476 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2015

About the author

Founder at Zenx IT, CTO at Exo Investing and author of Django by Example

Reviews

[Constantine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book that covers so many aspects about Django and web development. Might be not so easy for a complete beginner in this field, but if you already know some things it will be a great guide to learn Django. And, as title says, it really is by example. If you try to repeat the steps showed in each chapter, it will make you remember things and really understand what is going on. You will also touch stuff like Redis, Memcached, API, translation, deploying in production (with downloadable chapter) and more. Highly recommend to read!

I wish this book also explained architectures and some good practices - then it would be just priceless!

And since it was published more than a year ago, if you try this all on latest version of Django it might now work. So you gotta work out what went wrong and how to fix it. It's not that hard, though.

[Prashant Phani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good to get hands-on with django

[Tadas Talaikis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad, for version 1.8, not much changed until current 1.10. Something more than Django documentation starts after around first half of the book.

Django compared to web2py - I had seen one project that had multiple views written in separate messy functions when with Django mixins or class based views that could have been totally avoided. Complex web2py joins also are a mess when compared to correctly configured Django models and simple one line calls having everything in one object. Not including the case for project/ app based modularity.