Django Unleashed, Rough Cuts

Description

• Copyright 2016
• Edition: 1st

• Safari PTG
• ISBN-10: 0-13-381240-5
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-381240-4

This is the rough cut version of the printed book

This book provides a step-by-step, beginner-friendly example which demonstrates both Django's core and contributed library. At each step of the process, the reader will be introduced to a new Django feature. By following all of the instructions within the book, the reader will have completed a fully-functional website hosted online. Rather than chapters of reference materials, the book reveals Django's underlying architecture. The work also examines Django's source code, discussing common web patterns. By understanding how Django works, the reader is able to use the online reference documentation more fluidly than if he or she had just followed the tutorial, or read other books. Furthermore, the reader will walk away with fundamental knowledge of web frameworks, not just Django.

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Table of Contents

Part I: Django’s Core Features

Chapter 1: Starting a New Django Project: Building a Startup Catego-rizer with Blog

1.1 Modern Websites: the Problems Frameworks Solve and Their Caveats

1.2 Django: Python Web Framework

1.3 Defining the Project in Part I

1.4 Creating a new Django Project and Django Apps

1.5 Building “Hello World” in Django

1.6 Chapter Review

Chapter 2: Programming  Django  Models  and  Creating  an  SQLite Database

2.1 Why use a database?

2.2 Organizing our Data

2.3 Specifying and Organizing Data in Django using Models

2.4 Using Django to Automatically create an SQLite Database with manage.py

2.5 Manipulating Data in the Database: Managers and QuerySets

2.6 String Case Ordering

2.7 Chapter Review

Chapter 3: Rapidly Producing Flexible HTML with Django Templates

3.1 Revisiting Hello World: The Advantages of Templates

3.2 Understanding Django Templates and their Goals

3.3 Choosing a Format and a Location for Templates

3.4 Building a first template: a single Tag object

3.5 Building the rest of our App Templates

3.6 Using Template Inheritance to provide Design Consistency

3.7 Using Templates in Python with the Template, Context, and loader classes

3.8 Chapter Review

Chapter 4: Creating web pages with Controllers in Django: View Functions and URL Configurations

4.1 The purpose and function of view functions and URL Configurations

4.2 Revisiting Hello World one last time to understand Controllers

4.3 Building a view function from scratch: tag_detail

4.4 Adding a URL Pattern for tag_detail

4.5 Generating 404 Errors for Invalid Queries

4.6 Shortening the development process with Django view function Shortcuts

4.7 Maintaining App Encapsulation by splitting URL Configuration Files

4.8 Writing the view functions and URL Configurations to the rest of the site

4.9 Generalizing views with dictionaries

4.10 Class Based Views

4.11 Redirecting the homepage

4.12 Chapter Review

Chapter 5: Integrating Models, Templates, Views and URL Configurations to create links between web pages

5.1 Using the url template tag to build a navigation menu

5.2 Creating links to specific model objects using the url template tag

5.3 Creating links to specific model objects via the model

5.4 Creating links on the object detail pages

5.5 Revisiting homepage redirection

5.6 Chapter Review

Chapter 6: Enabling Data Input with Django Forms

6.1 Creating Django forms (MVC Models)

6.2 Building the forms for Startup, Newslink and Post models

6.3 Creating Controllers for forms

6.4 Building form templates

6.5 Chapter Review

Chapter 7: Material Review of Django’s Core

7.1 MVC => MTV

7.2 Basic Use Case

7.3 Models

7.4 URL Configuration

7.5 Views

7.6 Templates

Part II: Advanced Use of Django’s Core Features

Chapter 8: Making Python 3 code backwards compatible with Python 2.7

Chapter 9: Understanding Migrations

9.1 Avoiding Database Problems with Schema Migrations

9.2 Easing Automatic Data input with Data Migrations

Chapter 10: Customizing Templates using custom Template Filters and Tags

10.1 Custom Template Overview

10.2 Custom Template Filters

10.3 Custom Template Tags

Chapter 11: Validating Form Data and Creating Custom Fields

Chapter 12: Custom Model Managers

Chapter 13: Using Signals to Connect Posts to Startup Tags

Chapter 14: Optimizing View Functions and Django Templates

Part III: Django’s Contributed Libraries

Chapter 15: The Goals for Part II

15.1 How to read Part II

15.2 The Django Source Code

15.3 Topics Not Covered

Chapter 16: Controlling the site with Admin

Chapter 17: Extending Django Display Options

17.1 Static pages with Flatpages

17.2 Configuring Django to use Static Files

17.3 Automatically paginating lists in Django

Chapter 18: Generic Class Based Views

18.1 Generalizing Views

18.2 GCBV

Chapter 19: User Interaction

19.1 Auth: Users, Groups, Permissions

19.2 Integrating Auth

19.3 Extending/Replacing Auth

19.4 Comments

Chapter 20: Remove Internationalization

Chapter 21: Clickjacking

Chapter 22: Feeds (RSS/Atom)

Chapter 23: Sitemap

Chapter 24: Deployment

Chapter 25: App Encapsulation

Chapter 26: Third Party Apps

Part IV: A Full Example in Django: A Web Store

Chapter 27: The Goals for Part III

27.1 E-Commerce Structure

27.2 Selecting and Installing Third Party Apps

Chapter 28: Building the Apps and Models for our Project

28.1 Inventory

28.2 Shopping Cart

28.3 Merchant

28.4 Users

28.5 Configuring the Project for PostgreSQL

Chapter 29: Prototyping Views with Class Based Generic Views

29.1 Routing our site with URL Configurations

29.2 Building simple Templates

29.3 Writing  CBGVs

Chapter 30: Functional Testing of our Site with Selenium

Chapter 31: Polishing the site

31.1 Automating functionality with Template Tags

31.2 Customizing or Re-Writing our Views

Chapter 32: Supplementing Site Behavior with E-Mail

32.1 Configuring E-Mail

32.2 Sending E-Mails at signup

32.3 E-Mailing  Receipts

32.4 Marketing Mailing Lists

Chapter 33: Automating Background Tasks with Signals and Celery

33.1 Using Signals to Automate Image Processing

33.2 Using Celery to Automate Image Processing

Chapter 34: Packaging our work as an App on PyPi

Chapter 35: Deployment

35.1 Testing Provisioning with Vagrant

35.2 Deploy to Heroku

35.3 Deploy to Amazon Web Service (AWS) with Apache using Saltstack

35.4 Deploy to Rackspace with NginX using Ansible

Chapter 36: Analytics and Caching

Appendix A: Primers

A.1 Website Basics

A.2 Python

A.3 Relational Database Basics

A.4 Model View Controller Review

A.5 Security Basics

A.6 Regular Expressions

A.7 Compilation Basics

Appendix B: Installation

B.1 Installing Python

B.2 Installing pip

B.3 Installing SQLite

B.4 Installing PostgreSQL

B.5 Installing Django

B.6 Finding django-admin

Appendix C: Formal Syntax Crash Courses

C.1 Models

C.2 URL Configuration and Patterns

C.3 Templates

Appendix D: Cheat Sheets

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