Learn all about Django

Learn all about Django

Django is a powerful and popular Python-based web framework used for developing complex web applications quickly and easily. It was created in 2003 by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison while working at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. Since then, Django has become one of the most widely-used web frameworks, with thousands of developers around the world using it to build high-quality web applications.

The book covers the following:

1 Introduction to Django

1.1 What is Django?

1.2 Why use Django?

1.3 Overview of Django features

1.4 Getting started with Django

2 Django Basics

2.1 Creating a Django project

2.2 Understanding the project structure

2.3 Creating a Django app

2.4 Understanding the app structure

2.5 Creating Django views

2.6 Creating Django templates

2.7 Creating Django models

3 Django Forms

3.1 Creating Django forms

3.2 Understanding Django form validation

3.3 Using Django form widgets

3.4 Working with model forms

3.5 Creating custom form fields

4 Django Admin

4.1 Introduction to Django admin

4.2 Creating custom Django admin views

4.3 Adding custom Django admin actions

4.4 Securing the Django admin

5 Django Authentication and Authorization

5.1 Creating Django users and groups

5.2 Using Django authentication views

5.3 Implementing Django permissions

5.4 Creating custom authentication backends

6 Django REST Framework

6.1 Introduction to Django REST framework

6.2 Creating Django REST API views

6.3 Using Django REST serializers

6.4 Creating Django REST permissions

6.5 Securing Django REST APIs

7 Django Deployment

7.1 Preparing for Django deployment

7.2 Deploying Django on a server

7.3 Scaling Django for high traffic

8 Advanced Django Topics

8.1 Implementing caching in Django

8.2 Using Django signals

8.3 Creating custom Django template tags

8.4 Working with Django middleware

9 Best Practices for Django Development

9.1 Writing clean Django code

9.2 Testing Django applications

9.3 Debugging Django applications

9.4 Using version control for Django projects