Django 5 for the Impatient : Learn the Core Concepts of Django to Develop Python Web Applications / Daniel Correa and Greg Lim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Correa, Daniel, author.

Lim, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Django (Electronic resource).

Web site development.

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd., [2024]

Biography/History:

Correa Daniel: Daniel Correa is a researcher, software developer, and author of programming books. Holding a PhD in computer science, he also serves as a professor at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. His interests lie in software architectures, frameworks, web development, and clean code. Lim Greg: Greg Lim is a technologist and the author of several books on programming. He has taught programming in tertiary institutions for many years and places a strong emphasis on learning by doing.

Summary:

Learning Django can be a challenging and time-consuming activity without the right guidance. With hundreds of tutorials, loads of documentation, and unclear explanations out there, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s most important. This book stands out by teaching you how to use Django in just a few days with a focused approach. In this second edition, you’ll go on a fun, practical, and pragmatic journey to learning full-stack development with Django 5. You’ll start building your first Django app within minutes. As you progress, you’ll learn from concise explanations that will help you get to grips with some of the most important Django features, including URLs, views, templates, models, CSS inclusion, image storage, Django admin panel, and more. You’ll also understand how to design Django MVT (Model-View-Template) architectures and implement them. Additionally, you’ll use Django to develop a movie store application and deploy it to the internet. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy your own Django web applications confidently.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Installing Python and Django, and Introducing the Movies Store Application

Technical requirements

Introducing and installing Python

Introducing and installing Django

Creating and running a Django project

Understanding the Movies Store application

Introducing the Django MVT architecture

Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App

Understanding the project structure

The moviesstore folder

manage.py

db.sqlite3

Creating our first app

Creating a home page

Configuring an URL

Creating an about page

Configuring the about URL

Defining about function

Creating about template

Chapter 3: Designing a Base Template

Creating a base template with Bootstrap

Introducing Bootstrap

Introducing Django template language (DTL)

Creating a base template

Registering the base template

Updating the home page to use the base template

Creating the new index template

Creating a custom CSS file

Storing an image

Serving the static files

Updating the base template to use the custom CSS and load static files

Updating the views index function

Updating the About page to use the base template

Creating the new About template

Storing the about.jpg image

Updating the views about function

Adding a header section

Updating the base template

Storing the logo image

Updating the style.css

Adding a footer section

Chapter 4: Creating a Movies App with Dummy Data

Creating the movies app

Adding the movies app to settings.

Including the movies URL file in the project-level URL file

Listing movies with dummy data

Configuring the movies URL

Defining the views index function

Creating a movies index template

Listing individual movies

Configuring individual movies URLs

Defining the views show function

Creating a movies show template

Adding individual movie links on the movies page

Adding a link in the base template

Chapter 5: Working with Models

Creating our first model

Creating a Movie model

Installing Pillow

Managing migrations

Applying the default migrations

Creating custom migrations

Applying custom migrations

Accessing the Django admin interface

Creating a superuser

Restoring your superuser password

Accessing the admin panel

Configuring image upload

Serving the stored images

Adding a movie model to the admin panel

Adding the Movie model to the admin panel

Chapter 6: Collecting and Displaying Data from the Database

Removing the movies' dummy data

Updating the movie listings page

Updating index function

Updating the movies.index template

Adding a custom CSS class

Updating the listing of an individual movie page

Updating show function

Updating the movies.show template

Implementing a search movie functionality

Chapter 7: Understanding the Database

Understanding the database viewer

Customizing the Django admin panel

Ordering movies by name

Allowing searches by name

Switching to a MySQL database

Configuring the MySQL database

Configuring our project to use the MySQL database

Running the migrations

Summary.

Chapter 8: Implementing User Signup and Login

Creating an accounts app

Adding the accounts app to the settings file

Including the accounts URL file in the project-level URL file

Creating a basic signup page

Configuring a signup URL

Defining the signup function

Creating accounts signup template

Adding the signup link to the base template

Improving the signup page to handle POST actions

Customizing UserCreationForm

Creating CustomUserCreationForm

Updating the signup function to use CustomUserCreationForm

Customizing the way errors are displayed

Creating a login page

Configuring a login URL

Defining login function

Creating accounts login template

Adding the link to the base template

Redirecting a registered user to the login page

Implementing a logout functionality

Configuring a logout URL

Defining the logout function

Chapter 9: Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews

Creating a review model

Create the review model

Apply migrations

Add the review model to the admin panel

Creating reviews

Defining the create_review function

Configuring the create review URL

Reading reviews

Updating the show function

Updating a review

Updating movies.show template

Creating the movies edit_review template

Defining the edit_review function

Configuring the edit_review URL

Deleting a review

Defining the delete_review function

Configuring the delete_review URL

Chapter 10: Implementing a Shopping Cart System

Introducing web sessions.

HTTP protocol limitations

Web sessions

Django login scenario

Django sessions

Creating a cart app

Adding cart app in settings

Including the cart URL file in the project-level URL file

Adding movies to the cart

Configuring the add_to_cart URL

Defining add_to_cart function

Listing movies added to the cart

Configuring cart index URL

Defining a utils file

Defining a filter

Defining an index function

Creating the cart.index template

Updating the add_to_cart function

Removing movies from the cart

Configuring clear URL

Defining clear function

Updating the cart.index template

Chapter 11: Implementing Order and Item Models

Analyzing store invoices

Creating the order model

Creating the Order model

Applying migrations

Adding the order model to the admin panel

Creating the Item model

Adding the item model to the admin panel

Recapping the Movies Store class diagram

Chapter 12: Implementing the Purchase and Orders Pages

Creating the purchase page

Configuring the purchase URL

Defining the purchase function

Updating cart.index template

Creating cart.purchase template

Creating the orders page

Configuring the orders URL

Defining the orders function

Creating accounts.orders template

Recapping the Movies Store MVT architecture

Chapter 13: Deploying the Application to the Cloud

Managing GitHub and Git

Understanding Git and GitHub

Creating a GitHub repository

Uploading our code to GitHub

Cloning your code onto PythonAnywhere

Configuring virtual environments.

Setting up your web app

Configuring static files

Index

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ISBN:

9781835468333

1835468330

OCLC:

1461599673