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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)

Handling multilingual fields

Django uses the internationalization mechanism to translate verbose strings in the code and templates. But it's up to the developer to decide how to implement the multilingual content in the models. We'll show you a couple of ways for how to implement multilingual models directly in your project. The first approach will be using language-specific fields in your model.

This approach has the following features:

  • It is straightforward to define multilingual fields in the model.
  • It is simple to use the multilingual fields in database queries.
  • You can use contributed administration to edit models with the multilingual fields, without additional modifications.
  • If you need to, you can effortlessly show all of the translations of an object in the same template.
  • After changing the amount of languages in the settings, you will need to create and run...