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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

By : Antonio Melé
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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

4.8 (4)
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

Using Daphne for Django Channels

In Chapter 16, Building a Chat Server, you used Django Channels to build a chat server using WebSockets. uWSGI is suitable for running Django or any other WSGI application, but it doesn’t support asynchronous communication using Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) or WebSockets. In order to run Channels in production, you need an ASGI web server that is capable of managing WebSockets.

Daphne is an HTTP, HTTP2, and WebSocket server for ASGI developed to serve Channels. You can run Daphne alongside uWSGI to serve both ASGI and WSGI applications efficiently. You can find more information about Daphne at https://github.com/django/daphne.

You already added daphne==3.0.2 to the requirements.txt file of the project. Let’s create a new service in the Docker Compose file to run the Daphne web server.

Edit the docker-compose.yml file and add the following lines:

daphne:
    build: .
    working_dir: /code/educa/
    command...