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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jake Kronika, Aidas Bendoraitis
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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jake Kronika, Aidas Bendoraitis

Overview of this book

Django is a framework designed to balance rapid web development with high performance. It handles high levels of user traffic and interaction, integrates with a variety of databases, and collects and processes data in real time. This book follows a task-based approach to guide you through developing with the Django 2.1 framework, starting with setting up and configuring Docker containers and a virtual environment for your project. You'll learn how to write reusable pieces of code for your models and manage database changes. You'll work with forms and views to enter and list data, applying practical examples using templates and JavaScript together for the optimum user experience. This cookbook helps you to adjust the built-in Django administration to fit your needs and sharpen security and performance to make your web applications as robust, scalable, and dependable as possible. You'll also explore integration with Django CMS, the popular content management suite. In the final chapters, you'll learn programming and debugging tricks and discover how collecting data from different sources and providing it to others in various formats can be a breeze. By the end of the book, you'll learn how to test and deploy projects to a remote dedicated server and scale your application to meet user demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Introduction

Software that inappropriately exposes sensitive information, makes the user suffer through interminable wait times, or requires extensive amounts of hardware will never last. As a result, it is our responsibility as developers to make sure that applications are secure and performant. In this chapter, we will examine just some of the many ways to keep your users (and yourself) safe while operating within Django applications. Then, we'll cover a few options for caching that can reduce processing and get data to users at a lower expense in both money and time.