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Learn Web Development with Python

By : Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran
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Learn Web Development with Python

By: Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran

Overview of this book

If you want to develop complete Python web apps with Django, this Learning Path is for you. It will walk you through Python programming techniques and guide you in implementing them when creating 4 professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and develop RESTful web services with Django and Python. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Learn Web Development with Python will get you started with Python programming techniques, show you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. Last but not least, you’ll learn the best practices for creating real-world applications. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a full understanding of how Django works and how to use it to build web applications from scratch. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Python Programming by Fabrizio Romano • Django RESTful Web Services by Gastón C. Hillar • Django Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arun Ravindran
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we improved our simple Django RESTful Web Service. We took advantage of many features included in the Django REST framework to remove duplicate code and to add many features for the web service. We just needed to edit a few lines of code to enable an important amount of features.

First, we took advantage of model serializers. Then, we understood the different accepted and returned content types and the importance of providing accurate responses to the HTTP OPTIONS requests.

We incorporated the @api_view decorator and made the necessary changes to the existing code to enable diverse parsers and renderers. We understood how things worked under the hood in the Django REST framework. We worked with different content types and noticed the improvement of the RESTful Web Service compared with its previous versions.

Now that we understand how easy it is to work with different content types with the Django REST framework, we will work with one of the most interesting and powerful...