Django By Example

Django By Example

By : Antonio Melé

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Django By Example

By: Antonio Melé

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Overview of this book

Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly, from simple prototypes to large-scale projects. Django encourages clean, pragmatic design, and provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools to build scalable web applications. This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. The book begins by showing you how to build a blog application, before moving on to developing a social image bookmarking website, an online shop and an e-learning platform. You will learn how to build a search engine and implement a user activity stream. Furthermore, you will create a recommendation engine, an e-commerce coupon system and a content management system. The book will also teach you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs and setup a production environment for your Django projects. After reading this book, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how to integrate it with other technologies to build practical, advanced, web applications.

Django By Example

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About the Author

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Preface

Free Chapter

Building a Blog Application

Installing Django

Creating your first project

Designing the blog data schema

Creating an administration site for your models

Working with QuerySet and managers

Building list and detail views

Creating templates for your views

Adding pagination

Using class-based views

Summary

Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features

Sharing posts by e-mail

Creating a comment system

Adding tagging functionality

Retrieving posts by similarity

Summary

Extending Your Blog Application

Creating custom template tags and filters

Adding a sitemap to your site

Creating feeds for your blog posts

Adding a search engine with Solr and Haystack

Summary

Building a Social Website

Creating a social website project

Using the Django authentication framework

User registration and user profiles

Building a custom authentication backend

Adding social authentication to your site

Summary

Sharing Content in Your Website

Creating an image bookmarking website

Posting content from other websites

Creating a detail view for images

Creating image thumbnails using sorl-thumbnail

Adding AJAX actions with jQuery

Creating custom decorators for your views

Adding AJAX pagination to your list views

Summary

Tracking User Actions

Building a follower system

Building a generic activity stream application

Using signals for denormalizing counts

Using Redis for storing item views

Summary

Building an Online Shop

Creating an online shop project

Building a shopping cart

Registering customer orders

Launching asynchronous tasks with Celery

Summary

Managing Payments and Orders

Integrating a payment gateway

Exporting orders to CSV files

Extending the admin site with custom views

Generating PDF invoices dynamically

Summary

Extending Your Shop

Creating a coupon system

Adding internationalization and localization

Building a recommendation engine

Summary

Building an e-Learning Platform

Creating an e-Learning platform

Building the course models

Creating models for diverse content

Creating custom model fields

Creating a content management system

Summary

Caching Content

Displaying courses

Adding student registration

Accessing the course contents

Using the cache framework

Summary

Building an API

Building a RESTful API

Summary

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Django By Example

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First published: November 2015

Production reference: 1261115

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 978-1-78439-191-1

Django By Example

By : Antonio Melé

Django By Example

By: Antonio Melé

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