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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
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Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

When and why to use the admin interface-and when not to


After having worked through this chapter, you should have a good idea of how to use Django's admin site. But I want to make a point of covering when and why you might want to use it-and when not to use it.

Django's admin site especially shines when nontechnical users need to be able to enter data; that's the purpose behind the feature, after all. At the newspaper where Django was first developed, development of a typical online feature-say, a special report on water quality in the municipal supply-would go something like this:

  • The reporter responsible for the project meets with one of the developers and describes the available data.

  • The developer designs Django models to fit this data and then opens up the admin site to the reporter.

  • The reporter inspects the admin site to point out any missing or extraneous fields-better now than later. The developer changes the models iteratively.

  • When the models are agreed upon, the reporter begins entering...