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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

Securing your site with SSL/TLS

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is the standard for serving websites through a secure connection. The TLS predecessor is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Although SSL is now deprecated, in multiple libraries and online documentation, you will find references to both the terms TLS and SSL. It’s strongly encouraged that you serve your websites over HTTPS.

In this section, you are going to check your Django project for a production deployment and prepare the project to be served over HTTPS. Then, you are going to configure an SSL/TLS certificate in NGINX to serve your site securely.

Checking your project for production

Django includes a system check framework for validating your project at any time. The check framework inspects the applications installed in your Django project and detects common problems. Checks are triggered implicitly when you run management commands like runserver and migrate. However, you can trigger...