Practical Django 2 and Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities

by Federico Marani

Learn how to rapidly build your own ecommerce site by applying Django’s battle-tested components. This book demonstrates Django’s features and conventions to help you develop modern web applications quickly. You'll adopt a "learn by doing" approach and gain a deeper understanding Django by working through a project in which the real-time component will be critical. The book starts with the basics and explains the difference between a Django project and a Django app, the most important settings, how to change them, and the fundamentals of packaging. You'll then be introduced to all the standard tools of Django, along with a sample project. The book then moves on to Channels, a recent addition to the Django ecosystem. It extends the framework with support for real-time operations such as Websockets and other asynchronous features. Practical Django 2 and Channels 2 provides the practical concepts needed to create complex, database-driven websites as easily as possible.

What You'll Learn Who This Book Is For
Python developers and web developers wanting to learn Django 2 and Channels 2

Genres: Programming

425 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2018

Reviews

[Valentino Gagliardi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is definitively not a book for beginners. Overall, I like how the author puts emphasis on testing. However, from a book called "Django 2 and Channels 2" I would have expected more than 2 chapters on Django Channels. Also, a bit more explanation about how Django Channels works (as an introduction to the chapter) would have been nice.