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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Book Image

Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.6 (5)
By: Antonio Melé

Overview of this book

Django 4 By Example is the 4th edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You'll cover a wide range of web app development topics as you build four different apps: A blog application: Create data models, views, and URLs and implement an admin site for your blog. Create sitemaps and RSS feeds and implement a full-text search engine with PostgreSQL. A social website: Implement authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Create user profiles, image thumbnails, a bookmarklet, and an activity stream. Implement a user follower system and add infinite scroll pagination to your website. An e-commerce application: Build a product catalog, a shopping cart, and asynchronous tasks with Celery and RabbitMQ. Process payments with Stripe and manage payment notifications via webhooks. Build a product recommendation engine with Redis. Create PDF invoices and export orders to CSV. An e-learning platform: Create a content management system to manage polymorphic content. Cache content with Memcached and Redis. Build and consume a RESTful API. Implement a real-time chat using WebSockets with ASGI. Create a production environment using NGINX, uWSGI and Daphne with Docker Compose. This is a practical book that will have you creating web apps quickly.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Creating a production environment

It’s time to deploy your Django project in a production environment. You will start by configuring Django settings for multiple environments, and then you will set up a production environment.

Managing settings for multiple environments

In real-world projects, you will have to deal with multiple environments. You will usually have at least a local environment for development and a production environment for serving your application. You could have other environments as well, such as testing or staging environments.

Some project settings will be common to all environments, but others will be specific to each environment. Usually, you will use a base file that defines common settings, and a settings file per environment that overrides any necessary settings and defines additional ones.

We will manage the following environments:

  • local: The local environment to run the project on your machine.
  • prod: The environment...