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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Ravindran

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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

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By: Ravindran

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Overview of this book

Building secure and maintainable web applications requires comprehensive knowledge. The second edition of this book not only sheds light on Django, but also encapsulates years of experience in the form of design patterns and best practices. Rather than sticking to GoF design patterns, the book looks at higher-level patterns. Using the latest version of Django and Python, you’ll learn about Channels and asyncio while building a solid conceptual background. The book compares design choices to help you make everyday decisions faster in a rapidly changing environment. You’ll first learn about various architectural patterns, many of which are used to build Django. You’ll start with building a fun superhero project by gathering the requirements, creating mockups, and setting up the project. Through project-guided examples, you’ll explore the Model, View, templates, workflows, and code reusability techniques. In addition to this, you’ll learn practical Python coding techniques in Django that’ll enable you to tackle problems related to complex topics such as legacy coding, data modeling, and code reusability. You’ll discover API design principles and best practices, and understand the need for asynchronous workflows. During this journey, you’ll study popular Python code testing techniques in Django, various web security threats and their countermeasures, and the monitoring and performance of your application.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Django and Patterns

Why Django?

The story of Django

How does Django work?

What is a pattern?

Patterns in this book

Summary

Application Design

How to gather requirements?

Are you a storyteller?

HTML mockups

Designing the application

Best practices before starting a project

SuperBook – your mission, should you choose to accept it

Summary

Models

M is bigger than V and C

The model hunt

Structural patterns

Retrieval patterns

Migrations

Summary

Views and URLs

A view from the top

Class-based generic views

View mixins

Decorators

View patterns

Designing URLs

React.js, Vue.js, and other view replacements

Summary

Templates

Understanding Django's template language features

Jinja2

Organizing templates

How templates work

Using Bootstrap

Template patterns

Summary

Admin Interface

Using the admin interface

Enhancing models for the admin

Admin interface customizations

Protecting the admin

Summary

Forms

How forms work

Displaying forms

Understanding CSRF

Form processing with class-based views

Form patterns

Summary

Working Asynchronously

Why asynchronous?

Asynchronous patterns

Asynchronous solutions for Django

Summary

Creating APIs

RESTful API

Django Rest framework

API patterns

Summary

Dealing with Legacy Code

Finding the Django Version

Where are the files? This is not PHP

Starting with urls.py

Jumping around the code

Understanding the code base

Incremental change or a full rewrite?

Writing tests before making any changes

Legacy database integration

Future proofing

Summary

Testing and Debugging

Why write tests?

TDD

Writing a test case

Mocking

Pattern – Test fixtures and factories

Learning more about testing

Debugging

The print function

Logging

The Django Debug Toolbar

The Python debugger pdb

Other debuggers

Debugging Django templates

Summary

Security

Cross-site scripting

Cross-site request forgery

SQL injection

Clickjacking

Shell injection

A handy security checklist

Summary

Production-Ready

The production environment

Virtual machines or Docker

Hosting

Deployment tools

Monitoring

Improving Performance

Summary

Python 2 Versus Python 3

Python 3

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Using the admin interface

In a newly generated project, the admin interface is enabled by default. After starting your development server, you will be able to see a login page when you navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

If you have configured a superuser's credentials (or the credentials of any staff user), then you could log into the admin interface, as shown in the following screenshot:

Screenshot of Django administration in a new project

If you have used Django before, you'll notice that the appearance of the admin interface has improved, especially the SVG icons on high-DPI screens. It also uses responsive design, which works across all major mobile browsers.

However, your models will not be visible here, unless you register the model with the admin site. This is defined in your app's admin.py. For instance, in sightings/admin...