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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

Sharing Content on Your Website

In the previous chapter, you used Django Social Auth to add social authentication to your site using Facebook, Google, and Twitter. You learned how to run your development server with HTTPS on your local machine using Django Extensions. You customized the social authentication pipeline to create a user profile for new users automatically.

In this chapter, you will learn how to create a JavaScript bookmarklet to share content from other sites on your website, and you will implement AJAX features in your project using JavaScript and Django.

This chapter will cover the following points:

  • Creating many-to-many relationships
  • Customizing behavior for forms
  • Using JavaScript with Django
  • Building a JavaScript bookmarklet
  • Generating image thumbnails using easy-thumbnails
  • Implementing asynchronous HTTP requests with JavaScript and Django
  • Building infinite scroll pagination

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