Django By Example PDF

Create your own line of successful web applications with Django

About This Book

• Learn Django by building four fully-functional, real-world web applications from scratch

• Develop powerful web applications quickly using the best coding practices

• Integrate other technologies into your application with clear, step-by-step explanations and comprehensive example code

Who This Book Is For

If you are a web developer who is completely new or familiar with Django and want to make the most out of it, this book is for you. Some basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and JavaScript is beneficial, but is not required.

What You Will Learn

• Build a search engine with Django and Solr

• Add asynchronous tasks to applications with Celery

• Create pluggable Django applications by building an activity stream system

• Enhance the user experience using AJAX views

• Extend the Django Admin site with custom actions

• Use third-party Django applications to add social authentication to projects

• Manage payments and orders by integrating a third-party payment gateway

• Engage users by building a gamification system

In Detail

Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to solve all types of web development problems and questions, providing Python developers with an easy solution to web application development. With a wealth of third-party modules available, you'll be able to create a highly customizable web application with this powerful framework. This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects and show you how to solve common problems and implement best practices. The book begins by first showing you how to create a simple blog and integrate it with third-party applications, before gradually moving on to extending this blog by adding features such as custom template tags and filters.

You will build a complete social website, share its contents, track user actions in a timeline, and use Redis with Django to store item views. You will also build an online shop, manage its payments and orders, and add internationalization and localization to the project. Before you are introduced to content creation and building an evaluation system, you will build an e-learning application. Finally, you will build a gamification system where you will learn to build a badges application and get familiar with Django management commands.

After reading this book, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how to integrate it with other technologies. You will be able to build advanced Django applications for production use.

Style and approach

This is an easy-to-follow guide to building four different production-ready Django projects. Each project focuses on a particular area of the framework and each topic within the projects is explained with practical examples and includes best practice recommendations.