Django by Example: Build Powerful Real-World Applications Using Django

by Antonio Melé

Learn Django with four end-to-end projects

Key Features Learn Django by building real-world web applications from scratch Develop powerful web applications quickly using the best coding practices Integrate other technologies into your application with clear, step-by-step explanations and comprehensive example code Book Description

If you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django, then this book is for you. You will walk through the creation of four professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices.

You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. The book will teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and setup a production environment for your Django projects. The book walks you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Django and how to build advanced web applications.

What you will learn Build practical real-world web applications with Django Use Django with other technologies such as Redis, Celery and Solr. Develop pluggable Django applications Create advanced features, optimize your code and use the cache framework Add internationalization to your Django projects Enhance the user experience using JavaScript and AJAX Add social features to your projects Build RESTful APIs for your applications Who This Book Is For

If you are a web developer who wants to see how to build professional sites with Django, this book is for. You will need a basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and JavaScript, but you dont need to have worked with Django before.

About the Author

Antonio Melé is founder of Zenx IT, a company that develops web & mobile applications for clients of several industries.

Antonio has also worked as CTO and technology consultant for various technology-based startups. He has been developing Django projects since 2006 and he leads the django.es Spanish Django community.

Antonio Melé is the author of Django by Example. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and speaks English, Spanish, German and a bit of Mandarin.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science

526 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2018

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.