Practical recipes for building fast, robust, and secure web apps using Django 3 and Python

Key Features

• Explore the latest version of Django, and learn effectively with the help of practical examples
• Follow a task-based approach to develop professional web apps using Django and Python
• Discover recipes to enhance the security and performance of your apps

Book Description

Django is a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines, designed to help you build manageable medium and large web projects in a short time span. This fourth edition of the Django Web Development Cookbook is updated with Django 3's latest features to guide you effectively through the development process.

This Django book starts by helping you create a virtual environment and project structure for building Python web apps. You'll learn how to build models, views, forms, and templates for your web apps and then integrate JavaScript in your Django apps to add more features. As you advance, you'll create responsive multilingual websites, ready to be shared on social networks. The book will take you through uploading and processing images, rendering data in HTML5, PDF, and Excel, using and creating APIs, and navigating different data types in Django. You'll become well-versed in security best practices and caching techniques to enhance your website's security and speed. This edition not only helps you work with the PostgreSQL database but also the MySQL database. You'll also discover advanced recipes for using Django with Docker and Ansible in development, staging, and production environments.

By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in using Django's powerful features and will be equipped to create robust websites.

What you will learn

• Discover how to set the basic configurations to start any Django project
• Understand full-stack web application development using Django
• Build a database structure using reusable model mixins
• Implement security, performance, and deployment features in your web apps
• Import data from local sources and external web services and export it to your app
• Secure web applications against malicious usage and find and fix common performance bottlenecks

Who this book is for

This Django book is for Python web developers who want to build fast and secure web apps that can scale over time. You'll also find this book useful if you are looking to upgrade to the latest Django 3 framework. Prior experience of working with the Django framework is required.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Django 3.0
2. Models and Database Structure
3. Forms and Views
4. Templates and JavaScript
5. Custom Template Filters and Tags
6. Model Administration
7. Security and Performance
8. Hierarchical Structures
9. Importing and Exporting Data
10. Bells and Whistles
11. Testing
12. Deployment
13. Maintenance

About the Author

Aidas Bendoraitis has been professionally building websites for the past 18 years. For the last 14 years, he has been working at a design company, studio 38 pure communication, in Berlin. Together with a small dedicated team, he has mostly used Django in the backend and jQuery in the frontend to create cultural and touristic web platforms.Among different side projects, he is bootstrapping a SaaS business with strategic prioritizer 1st things 1st. Aidas Bendoraitis is active on Twitter and other social media under the username DjangoTricks.

Jake Kronikaa, software engineer with 25 years of experience. He has been working with Python since 2005 and Django since 2007. Evolving in lockstep with the web development industry, his skill set encompasses HTML, CSS, full-stack JavaScript, Python, Django, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and several other technologies.Currently a software architect and development team lead, Jake collaborates with designers, business stakeholders, and engineers around the globe to build robust applications. In his spare time, he provides full-spectrum web services as a freelancer. In addition to authoring this book, Jake has reviewed several other Packt titles - most recently, Django 3 By Example, Third Edition by Antonio Melé