Hello Web App (Add the Custom Designed PDF)
Hello Web App
Learn how to build a web app using Django and Python! Updated for Django 2.0 and Python 3.
About the Book
Learn how to code web apps and get on the path to building your next side project, your lifestyle business, or your startup.
Updated for Python 3 and Django 2.0. Now including twice the original content.
Hello Web App is written for non-programmers by a designer, and will walk you through every step you need before launching your web app live to real customers. No jargon, simple and friendly language, using the Python programming language and the Django framework.
This book doesn't walk you through a specific tutorial, but instead uses a generic example (a "collection of things") to allow you to create something that interests you. A blog is a collection of posts, a store is a collection of products, a directory is a collection of people. The possibilities are endless.
Learn by doing—creating a project unique to you while teaching yourself how to build a web app.
What you'll learn
Part 1
How to build a web app with Django
Django is the easiest way to launch a web app with users, registration, and dynamic objects.
How to use the Django admin
The best part about Django! Learn how to view and update your database using the Django admin.
Adding user registration
Allow folks to sign up for your web app! Learn how to add registration and login pages.
How to add payments with Stripe
Want to start generating revenue? Learn in this quick-and-easy chapter on adding Stripe.
Launch your web app on Heroku
Get your web app live on the internet for folks to see! Deployment made easy.
Part 2
Add user-uploaded images
Allow your users to upload images for their profiles or products.
Editing and resizing images
Learn how to set up your project to automatically resize or edit images.
Working with sessions
Learn how to store data short-term.
Learn how to work with multiple models
Break out your project into multiple models to store more information.
How to add payments with Stripe
Monetize your site and add payments or subscriptions to your accounts.
Adding Gulp, Sass, and other front-end technology
Learn how to integrate front-end tools and Node into your Django web app.
Adding an API
Add an API to your web app so your data can be accessed and used by other apps.
And more!
About the Author
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Complete Hello Web App Package
The entire Hello Web App collection — Leanpub PDF, .mobi, and .ePub files, custom designed PDF, and 15 instructional screencasts to walk you through Hello Web App.
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The Custom Designed PDF
The custom designed Hello Web App PDF — the same design that is in the printed paperback.
Instructional videos
15 instructional videos and screencasts including: How to use Git, using the command line, a walkthrough of real life web app code, a walkthrough of creating a unique website feature, and 11 videos covering every chapter of the book.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
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What We’re Building
- MVP: Minimum Viable Product
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Prerequisites
- HTML and CSS
- Python (just a bit)
- Suggestion: A Linux or Mac computer
- Getting Started
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Setting Up Your Templates
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Adding a URL to
urls.py - Creating your first view
- Adding static files
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Adding a URL to
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Fun With Template Tags
- Building complex templates with inheritance
- Adding a few other static pages
- Passing in variables and template tags
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Adding Dynamic Data
- Your local database
- Setting up your model
- Finishing setting up your database with migrations
- Using the Django admin
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Displaying Dynamic Information in the Templates
- Querying for info from the database
- Retrieving and filtering information with QuerySets
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Setting Up Individual Object Pages
- Adding the new pages to our URL definitions
- Create the view
- Setting up the template
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Forms.py Funsies
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Update your
urls.py - And then add your view…
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Create your
forms.pyfile
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Update your
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Adding a Registration Page
- Installing our first third party plugin for registration
- Setting up password reset functionality
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Associating Users with Objects
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Changing our model so
Users can own aThing - Updating your registration flow
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Changing our model so
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Setting Up Basic Browse Pages
- Set up your URL routing
- Set up the view
- Create the template
- Updating your nav and setting up redirects
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Quick Hits: 404 Pages, requirements.txt, and Testing
- Setting up 404 and 500 error pages
- Setting up a requirements.txt
- Setting up your first tests
- Deploying Your Web App
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Setting up Heroku
- Installing a few extra packages
- Creating your Procfile
- Setting up your static files for production
- Creating your app on Heroku
- Setting up your production database
- Error pages usually help you find the problem
- Googling the error usually comes up with helpful answers
- Ask for help
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Important Things to Know
- Code style
- Documentation
- Security
- Using the Django Shell
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Moving Forward
- Keep building your app
- Great books and additional reading
- Additional tutorials and resources
- Free online classes
- In-person programming schools and development courses
- Stay in touch with Hello Web App
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Special Thanks
- Super duper thanks to our sponsor
- Book reviewers, editors, and testers
- Help and suggestions
- Kickstarter backers
- References
- Friendly Note
- About the Author
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