Django 5 By Example

Build four real-world Django apps and learn Django by doing. Create fully functional web applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, RESTful APIs, and more!

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Key Features

Learn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals, and middleware
Updated to include Django 5 features, detailed app planning, more diagrams, improved tooling, and additional coverage
Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Memcached into your applications

Book DescriptionIf you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you.
Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build web apps. This book will walk you through the planning and 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, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what's new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web applications, create detailed project plans, and understand the "how"s and "why"s of Django.
This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.What you will learn

Implement different modules of the Django framework to solve specific problems
Integrate third-party Django applications into your project
Build asynchronous (ASGI) applications with Django
Set up a production environment for your projects
Create complex web applications easily to solve real use cases
Implement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommendation engines
Add real-time features to your apps with Django Channels and WebSockets

Who this book is forThis book is for readers with basic Python knowledge and programmers transitioning from other web frameworks who wish to learn Django by doing. If you already use Django, or have in the past, and want to learn best practices and integrate other technologies to scale your applications, then this book is for you too. This book will help you master the most relevant areas of the framework by building practical projects from scratch.
Some previous knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed