Practical Django 2 and Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities

by Federico Marani

Overview

Learn how to rapidly build your own ecommerce site by applying Django’s battle-tested components. This book demonstrates Django’s features and conventions to help you develop modern web applications quickly. You'll adopt a "learn by doing" approach and gain a deeper understanding Django by working through a project in which the real-time component will be critical.

The book starts with the basics and explains the difference between a Django project and a Django app, the most important settings, how to change them, and the fundamentals of packaging. You'll then be introduced to all the standard tools of Django, along with a sample project. The book then moves on to Channels, a recent addition to the Django ecosystem. It extends the framework with support for real-time operations such as Websockets and other asynchronous features.

Practical Django 2 and Channels 2 provides the practical concepts needed to create complex, database-driven websitesas easily as possible.

What You'll Learn

• Build and deploy a simple company site with Django

• Develop more complex, data-heavy sites using the Django ORM
• Integrate Django with Channels
• Unit-test your solutions

Who This Book Is For

Python developers and web developers wanting to learn Django 2 and Channels 2

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484240984
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/15/2018
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	409
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Federico Marani has been a freelance software engineer and DevOps specialist for over 15 years. With a background in Computer Science and a Msc in Business Psychology, he has worked in companies ranging from e-commerce, finance, medical and banking companies. He started developing web applications with Python 1.5.2 on RedHat systems hasbeen using Django since the first 1.x versions, more than 8 years ago. He now consults on technology strategy and tech teams with startups, and still very hands-on with coding. Open sourced a lot of code online, some of which is part of GNU Social. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums and running.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01: Introduction to Django and basic concepts.- Chapter 02: Getting started with a simple company site.- Chapter 03: Adding the product catalogue to the site.- Chapter 04: A checkout system for receiving orders online.- Chapter 05: Adding CSS/Javascript to our Django project.- Chapter 06: Using external libraries in our project.- Chapter 07: Making an internal dashboard for the company.- Chapter 08: : Backend for a mobile customer service app (using Channels: Chapter 09: Mobile customer service app (using websockets).- Chapter 10: How to deploy Django sites.