Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you'll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer's manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Chapter 2: Views and URLconfs

Chapter 3: Templates

Chapter 4: Models

Chapter 5: The Django Ad min Site

Chapter 6: Forms

Chapter 7: Advanced Views and URLconfs

Chapter 8: Advanced Templates

Chapter 9: Advanced Models

Chapter 10: Generic Views

Chapter 11: User Authentication in Django

Chapter 12: Testing in Django

Chapter 13: Deploying Django

Chapter 14: Generating Non-HTML Content

Chapter 15: Django Sessions

Chapter 16: Djangos Cache Framework

Chapter 17: Django Middleware

Chapter 18: Internationalization

Chapter 19: Security in Django

Chapter 20: More on Installing Django

Chapter 21: Advanced Database Management

Appendix A: Model Definition Reference

Appendix B: Database API Reference

Appendix C: Generic View Reference

Appendix D: Settings

Appendix E: Built-in Template Tags and Filters

Appendix F: Request and Response Objects

Appendix G: Developing Django with Visual Studio