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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
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Book Image

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Managing branches

In Odoo.sh, you can create multiple development and staging branches along with the production branch. In this recipe, we will create different types of branches and see the differences between them. You will see the full workflow of how you can develop, test, and deploy the new features.

Getting ready

Visit https://www.odoo.sh/project and open the project we created in the Creating an Odoo.sh account recipe. We will create a development branch for the new feature and then test it in the staging branch. Finally, we will merge the feature in the production branch.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will create all types of branches in Odoo.sh. At the moment, we don't have any branches in production, so we will start by creating a production branch.

Creating the production branch

Right now, we only have one main branch in the Development section. The last build of the main branch shows a green label that reads Test: success, meaning that all of...