Mastering Django: A Beginner’s Guide
- Length: 302 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 2022-11-29
- ISBN-10: 1032315989
- ISBN-13: 9781032315980
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Mastering Django helps the reader master the powerful Django framework for Python for creating dynamic applications and projects.
Django is a high-level, open-source Python web framework created to help web developers achieve tight deadlines while also meeting a variety of needs. The primary feature of Django that makes it so popular among developers is that it promotes rapid development while providing a consistent and realistic design.
Django is a complete toolkit with a basic code and highly adaptable architecture that promotes rapid development – it can shape and pace your web app concept and see it through to launch in a matter of hours.
Django’s simplicity, stability, scalability, and flexibility are unmatched. It is currently a vibrant, collaborative, open-source project with thousands of users and contributors. Django is a versatile framework capable of developing any website.
Hallmarks of this popular web framework include Robust design, rapid software development, fantastic documentation and tutorials, a vast community with readymade solutions, reasonably easy learning curve, and a high degree of clarity and readability.
Django has carved out a niche for itself in the industry over the years, and appropriately so. Many popular apps use Django as their secret ingredient. Django has many features and can accommodate any modern web application. If you wish to build a successful career in web development, learning Django is a wise choice.
With Mastering Django, learning the Django framework becomes a charm, and will help readers undoubtedly advance their careers.
The Mastering Computer Science series is edited by Sufyan bin Uzayr, a writer and educator with more than a decade of experience in the computing field.
Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Mastering Computer Science Series Preface About the Editor Chapter 1 Django’s History Which Language Is Used in Django? Is Python Necessary for Django? What Can I Do with Python? Is Python Supported? Advantages of Python Programming Language Before Django, Things Needed to Be Done in Python How Do We Get Started with Python? Coding Editors Is Python an Interpreted or Compiler Language? Applications of Python Programming Additional Features of Python Django What Is a Web Framework? Types of Web Framework Advantages of Using Web Framework for Development? How to Use Django Frameworks? How Does Django Code Look Like? The Model Template View (MTV) Design Pattern Why Django Templates? How Popular Is Django? Why MTV Instead of MVC? Why Django? Advantages of Django Disadvantages of Django Difference between Project and App Django File Structure What Else Can You Do? Setting Up a Database? Main Topics Chapter Summary Chapter 2 Installation So Firstly, What Is IDE? Why Do Developers Use IDEs? Understanding the Differences: Local IDE vs. Cloud IDE What Is a Local IDE? Benefits What Is Cloud IDE? Benefits Are You New to Django? Learning Django Database Driver Why Is Python Required? Python Installation on Windows How to Add PATH in Environment Variable Verifying Python Interpreter What Is a PIP? Installing PIP on Windows PIP Commands Setup Python Virtual Environment Why Use Virtual Environments? Organizing Folders Freezing Requirements Command for using the Virtual Environment Installing Django with PIP Install Django from Local tar.gz File with PIP Install Django from Git Installing and Creating the Django Project How to Change the Default Port? How to Check the Django Version? Template File Creating a Project and Deploying Deploying with Heroku Chapter Summary Chapter 3 File Structure Examining the Project Structure and Apps Exploring the Project Folder Manage.py Middleware Types of Middleware Custom Middleware How to Create Middleware? Middleware Methods urls.py URL Mapping Most Commonly Used Django URL Functions views.py wsgi.py asgi.py Exploring the App Folder Migration Folder models.py urls.py tests.py Files and Directories to Create Django Commands Create a Project’s Directory Structure Create New App in Project Run the Server Create Database Migration Migrate the Database Create Admin User Create Admin User Git Bash Django Is a Loosely Coupled Framework Django's URL Configuration Additional Configuration URL Dispatcher Chapter Summary Chapter 4 Django’s Model Fundamentals of Django’s Model Different Types of Fields How Do Django Models Work? What Is Fields Option? Field Options Explanation Adding Model String What Is Unicode Object? Magic method or Dunder Method Relationships and Query Set Relationships Many-to-Many Relationships Retrieving Single Object from QuerySets Filtering the Records Using exclude() Method Ordering Data Chaining Lookups Slicing Data Many-to-One Relationships Some Important Field Lookups One-to-One Relationships Why Do We Use Models? Configuring the Database Types of Database Connecting to Database Modelformsets The Admin Module Installing the Admin Module Chapter Summary Chapter 5 Django’s View Views in Django Configuration of the URLs Mapping URLs to Views How Does It Process a Request? What Is URL Routing? What Is path vs. re_path? How to Create Views Adding a Homepage Path Function-Based Views Class-Based Views What are generic views? Types of Generic View Django View HTTP Decorators URLconfs and Loose Coupling Django Exceptions and Error-Handling What Are Exceptions? Exception in Python Why Practice Exceptions? Common Exception Explanation Raising Exceptions Custom Exceptions Django Exceptions URL Resolver Exceptions Advanced View and URLs Using Named Groups Keyword Arguments vs. Positional Arguments Passing Extra Options to View Functions Chapter Summary Chapter 6 Django’s Templates Basics of Template Jinja Why Is Jinja2 Useful? Origin of Jinja2? API Why do we need Jinja2? Installation Dependencies What Is Babel? Template Django Template System Basic Operators Other Operators Python in-built Method Various Functions Comparisons Logic Rendering a Template The Django Template Language Why do We Use Engine? What Are Loaders? Support for Template Engines Configuration or How Django Finds the Templates? Common terms used in TEMPLATE Creating a Site Template Addition Path for Template Full Example of Templates Class Jinja Usage of Template Loaders Optional Argument Template Inheritance Django Static Files Handling Chapter Summary Chapter 7 Django’s Admin Panel Overview of Django Admin Accessing the Django Admin Site Enabling Admin Panel What Does Admin Do? How Does It Work? How Secure Is Django Admin? Writing Action Functions Usage Various Subcommands Django Admin Customization Python manage.py Startapp Products How to Register/Unregister Models from Admin? Customization of Heading in Admin Panel Django Admin Custom Page Layout, Data, and Behaviors Model Admin Classes How to add Jquery in you project? Chapter Summary Chapter 8 Django’s Forms HTML Forms Link to a Page with the Form Input Tag Django’s Role in Forms Django’s Forms forms.Form vs forms.ModelForm The Django Form Class Bound and Unbound Form Instances Widgets The form class Widgets Argument Django-crispy-Forms How to Use Django Crispy Forms Crispy Filter Installation Load in the Crispy Form Tags Using the Django as_crispy_field Form Filter What to Do When the Crispy Form Is Not Working? Template Packs How to Style Django Forms with Bootstrap Form Helpers Django UserCreationForm Implement Django UserCreationForm The Reason Why We Use self.cleaned_data Understanding Args and Kwargs in Python What Are Args? What Are Kwargs? Use of Args and Kwargs Using Both Args and Kwargs in a Function Chapter Summary Chapter 9 The Advanced Model Django Model Definition Fields Common Field Arguments Fields for Common Data Types Importing the model.py in Various Files Various Advanced Topics in Django Models Model Method Creating New Instances Customizing Model Loading Deleting Objects from Database Model.get_deferred_fields() Validating Objects Model.clean_fields(exclude=None) Model.validate_unique(exclude=None) Saving Objects Auto-incrementing Primary Keys Model.pk vs Model.id Model Objects Saving ForeignKey and ManyToManyField Fields Retrieving All Objects Other model instance methods UserModel User Model Built-in Fields Methods Logout and Login Signals Manager Methods Model Manager A Custom Name to the Default Manager How to Use the Student Manager Methods of Manager Class Chapter Summary Chapter 10 Deployment Introduction Prerequisites What Is a Deployment Environment? Python Installation on Windows How to Add PATH in Environment Variable Installing Django with pip Creation of the Django Project Choosing the Right Hosting Provider Ready to Publish Your Website Django Deployment Interfaces WSGI ASGI class Application AWS? What Is Cloud Computing? Types of Clouds Cloud Services Models AWS Services AWS Elastic Beanstalk Benefits Open the ES environment in the browser Accessing Django Admin in Deployment Collect the Static in the CLI Check the Django Web App from AWS Azure Features of Cloud-Based Services Microsoft Azure Features Related to Mobile Services Deploying Our Django App onto Azure File Structure Installing Azure Azure Deployment Files Git Chapter Summary Chapter 11 Create Quiz Web App with Python Django React, Flask, Ruby on Rails, etc. How to Create a Quiz List App in Python Django Purpose Project Prerequisites Virtual Environment Changing in Our Models Making a Migration Migrating to the Database Registering to the Admin Creating Superuser and Viewing in the Admin Panel Making and Changing the Templates Base.html Login.html Login Page Register Page Home Page Result Page url.py url.py form.py view.py app.py What Is the Purpose of This Project? Chapter 12 Project To-Do List React, Flask, Ruby on Rails, etc. How to Create a To-Do List App in Python Django Creating Superuser and Viewing in the Admin Panel Making a Migration Migrating to the Database Edit Page After Edit Page Login Page Register Page Show Details Page Views.py urls.py model.py forms.py Apps.py admin.py In admin.py Chapter 13 Comparative Study between Django, Flask, Node.Js, and Spring Boot Types of Python Framework What Is Flask? Django VS Node.js What Is Node.js? Django vs. Spring Boot What Is Spring Boot? Chapter Summary Appraisal Bibliography Index
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