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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)

Customizing columns on the change list page

The change list views in the default Django administration system provide an overview of all of the instances of the specific models. By default, the list_display model admin attribute controls the fields that are shown in different columns. Additionally, you can implement custom admin methods that will return the data from relations or display custom HTML. In this recipe, we will create a special function, for use with the list_display attribute, that shows an image in one of the columns of the list view. As a bonus, we will make one field directly editable in the list view by adding the list_editable setting.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the Pillow and django-imagekit...