Django for Professionals
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Django for Professionals

Production websites with Python & Django

About the Book

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.

In the book you’ll learn how to:

  • Build a Bookstore website from scratch
  • Use Docker and PostgreSQL locally to mimic production settings
  • Implement advanced user registration with email
  • Customize permissions to control user access
  • Write comprehensive tests
  • Adopt advanced security and performance improvements
  • Add search and file/image uploads
  • Deploy with confidence

If you want to take advantage of all that Django has to offer, Django for Professionals is a comprehensive best practices guide to building and deploying modern websites.

Reviews

"If you’re looking for a guide into the world of Django, then the three-step of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals is ideal: get up and running, get into APIs, which are a cornerstone of modern app development, and then add the bits you need to your fledging app into production, from databases and static files, to user accounts and security. It’s a long road. Will’s books are an awesome companion."—CARLTON GIBSON, Django Fellow and Django REST Framework core contributor

"When readers interested in web development ask me what to read next after Python Crash Course, I refer them to Will's books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I highly recommend you check out his work."—ERIC MATTHES, author of Python Crash Course

"Will's books are a fantastic resource for web development with Django and Python. I highly recommended them.”—JEFF TRIPLETT, Python Software Foundation Director, DEFNA President, and REVSYS Partner

About the Author

William S. Vincent
William S. Vincent

William S. Vincent is the author of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. A Board Member of the Django Software Foundation, he was previously an early employee at Quizlet and taught computer science at Williams College. He writes regularly about Python and Django at LearnDjango.com.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Prerequisites
    • Book Structure
    • Book Layout
    • Community
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 1: Initial Set Up
    • The Command Line
    • Install Python 3
    • Text Editor
    • Install Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: Docker Hello, World!
    • What is Docker?
    • Virtual Environments vs Containers
    • Install Docker
    • Docker Hello, World
    • Install Django
    • Django Hello, World
    • Pages App
    • Docker Image
    • Dockerfile
    • .dockerignore
    • docker-compose.yml
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: PostgreSQL
    • Django Set Up
    • Docker
    • Detached Mode
    • PostgreSQL
    • docker-compose.yml
    • DATABASES
    • New Database
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Bookstore Project
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • Custom User Model
    • Custom User Forms
    • Custom User Admin
    • Superuser
    • Tests
    • Unit Tests
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Pages App
    • Templates
    • URLs and Views
    • Tests
    • Testing Templates
    • Testing HTML
    • setUp()
    • Resolve
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: User Registration
    • Auth App
    • Auth URLs and Views
    • Homepage
    • Django Source Code
    • Log In
    • Redirects
    • Log Out
    • Sign Up
    • Tests
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Static Assets
    • Local Development
    • STATICFILES_DIRS
    • CSS
    • Images
    • JavaScript
    • Production
    • Bootstrap
    • About Page
    • About Page Tests
    • Django Crispy Forms
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Advanced User Registration
    • django-allauth
    • AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
    • EMAIL_BACKEND
    • ACCOUNT_LOGOUT_REDIRECT
    • URLs
    • Templates
    • Log In
    • Log Out
    • Sign Up
    • Admin
    • Email Only Login
    • Tests
    • Social
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9: Environment Variables
    • Environs
    • SECRET_KEY
    • DEBUG and ALLOWED_HOSTS
    • DATABASES
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 10: Email
    • Custom Confirmation Emails
    • Email Confirmation Page
    • Password Reset and Password Change
    • Email Service
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Books App
    • Models
    • Admin
    • URLs
    • Views
    • Templates
    • object_list
    • Individual Book Page
    • context_object_name
    • Adding URLs
    • get_absolute_url
    • Primary Keys vs. IDs
    • Slugs vs. UUIDs
    • Tests
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Reviews App
    • Foreign Keys
    • Reviews model
    • Admin
    • Templates
    • Tests
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 13: File/Image Uploads
    • Media Files
    • Models
    • Admin
    • Template
    • django-storages
    • Next Steps
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 14: Permissions
    • Logged-In Users Only
    • Permissions
    • Custom Permissions
    • User Permissions
    • PermissionRequiredMixin
    • Groups & UserPassesTestMixin
    • Tests
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 15: Search
    • Search Results Page
    • Basic Filtering
    • Q Objects
    • Forms
    • Search Form
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 16: Performance
    • django-debug-toolbar
    • Analyzing Pages
    • select_related and prefetch_related
    • Indexes
    • Caching
    • Front-end Assets
    • Next Steps
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 17: Security
    • Social Engineering
    • Django updates
    • Deployment Checklist
    • docker-compose-prod.yml
    • DEBUG
    • Defaults
    • SECRET_KEY
    • Web Security
    • SQL injection
    • XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
    • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
    • Clickjacking Protection
    • HTTPS/SSL
    • SSL Error
    • HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
    • Secure Cookies
    • Admin Hardening
    • Git
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 18: Deployment
    • PaaS vs IaaS
    • WhiteNoise
    • Media Files
    • Gunicorn
    • Heroku
    • Deploying with Docker
    • Heroku Deployment
    • ALLOWED_HOSTS
    • Doing It Live!
    • SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER
    • Production Database
    • Heroku Logs
    • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
    • Learning Resources
    • Feedback

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