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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Error reporting


By the time you push your code to production, it's hopefully robust, but you can't rule out unexpected errors. Thankfully, Django can capture errors and notify you accordingly.

LOGGING

Review your logging configuration before putting your website in production, and check that it works as expected as soon as you have received some traffic.

ADMINS and MANAGERS

ADMINS will be notified of 500 errors by email. MANAGERS will be notified of 404 errors. IGNORABLE_404_URLS can help filter out spurious reports.

Error reporting by email doesn't scale very well. Consider using an error monitoring system such as Sentry (for more information visit http://sentry.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) before your inbox is flooded by reports. Sentry can also aggregate logs.

Customize the default error views

Django includes default views and templates for several HTTP error codes. You may want to override the default templates by creating the following templates in your root template directory: 404.html, 500...