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