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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Aidas Bendoraitis, Jake Kronika
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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Aidas Bendoraitis, Jake Kronika

Overview of this book

Django is a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines, designed to help you build manageable medium and large web projects in a short time span. This fourth edition of the Django Web Development Cookbook is updated with Django 3's latest features to guide you effectively through the development process. This Django book starts by helping you create a virtual environment and project structure for building Python web apps. You'll learn how to build models, views, forms, and templates for your web apps and then integrate JavaScript in your Django apps to add more features. As you advance, you'll create responsive multilingual websites, ready to be shared on social networks. The book will take you through uploading and processing images, rendering data in HTML5, PDF, and Excel, using and creating APIs, and navigating different data types in Django. You'll become well-versed in security best practices and caching techniques to enhance your website's security and speed. This edition not only helps you work with the PostgreSQL database but also the MySQL database. You'll also discover advanced recipes for using Django with Docker and Ansible in development, staging, and production environments. By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in using Django's powerful features and will be equipped to create robust websites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Inserting a map into a change form

Google Maps offers a JavaScript API that we can use to insert maps into our websites. In this recipe, we will create a locations app with the Location model and extend the template of the change form in order to add a map where an administrator can find and mark the geographical coordinates of a location.

Getting ready

Register for a Google Maps API key and expose it to the templates, just like we did in the Using HTML5 data attributes recipe in Chapter 4, Templates and JavaScript. Note that for this recipe, in the Google Cloud Platform console, you will need to activate Maps JavaScript API and Geocoding API. For those APIs to function, you also need to set billing data.

We will continue...