A step-by-step guide to building web applications with Python and Django 3.0.

Create, test, and deploy 5 progressively more complex websites including a Message Board app, a Blog app with user accounts, and a robust Newspaper app with reader comments and a complete user registration flow.

Along the way you'll learn core Django features and best practices around models, views, templates, urls, custom user models, permissions, authorizations, user registration, testing, and deployment.

Topics covered include:

• Django 3.0 and Python 3.7
• Pipenv for virtual environments
• Templates/URLs
• Class-based views
• User authentication
• Custom user model
• Permissions and authorizations
• Deployment
• Testing

Learn how to build web APIs with Python and Django 2.2.

Take a modern API-first approach to creating 3 different Django back-ends: a Library API, Todo API, and a Blog API with user authentication, permissions, proper documentation, and more. You'll even learn how to connect them to a React front-end for a truly full-stack web application.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Web APIs
• Chapter 2: Library website and API
• Chapter 3: Todo API
• Chapter 4: Todo React Front-end
• Chapter 5: Blog API
• Chapter 6: Permissions
• Chapter 7: User Authentication
• Chapter 8: Viewsets and Routers
• Chapter 9: Schemas and Documentation

Once you have learned the basics of Django there is a massive gap between building simple "toy apps" and what it takes to build a "production-ready" web application suitable for deployment to thousands or even millions of users. 

This book covers in-depth how professional Django programmers do their job and build these real-world web applications. We will build from scratch an online bookstore that supports purchases via Stripe. And we will cover in-depth the following topics:

* Django 3.0 & Python 3.7

* advanced user registration: custom user models, social authentication

* using Docker & PostgreSQL locally

* environment variables (no more multiple settings files!)

* permissions and file/image uploads

* Stripe for orders

* search

* security & performance 

* deployment