William S. Vincent Books

Newly updated for Django 2.1 and Python 3.7. Django for Beginners takes you from total beginner to confident Django developer. Proceed step-by-step through five progressively more complex projects: from a Hello World app all the way to a robust Newspaper app with a custom user model, complete user authentication flow, foreign key relationships, and more. Learn current best practices around class-based views, templates, urls, user authentication, testing, and deployment. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: Initial Setup Chapter 2: Hello World app Chapter 3: Pages app Chapter 4: Message Board app Chapter 5: Blog app Chapter 6: Forms Chapter 7: User Accounts Chapter 8: Custom User Model Chapter 9: User Authentication Chapter 10: Bootstrap Chapter 11: Password Change and Reset Chapter 12: Email Chapter 13: Newspaper app Chapter 14: Permissions and Authorizations Chapter 15: Comments Conclusion

Learn how to build web APIs with Python and Django 2.2. Take a modern API-first approach to creating 3 different Django back-ends: a Library API, Todo API, and a Blog API with user authentication, permissions, proper documentation, and more. You'll even learn how to connect them to a React front-end for a truly full-stack web application. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Web APIs Chapter 2: Library website and API Chapter 3: Todo API Chapter 4: Todo React Frontend Chapter 5: Blog API Chapter 6: Permissions Chapter 7: User Authentication Chapter 8: Viewsets and Routers Chapter 9: Schemas and Documentation Conclusion

Build six real-world Django websites from scratch with features like authentication, content management systems, tests, permissions, and production-ready deployment. This fifth edition serves as a comprehensive guide to creating practical web applications using Python, introducing concepts through six projects that mimic real-world scenarios. Projects range from a simple Hello World website to a message board, blogging platform, and newspaper CRM, allowing you to learn about Django's architecture and progressively add new functionalities. The guide emphasizes best practices, enhanced testing, and a thorough deployment strategy to prepare you for real-world web development challenges. Key features include updates for Django 5 and Python 3.12, mastery of Django fundamentals such as models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, settings, forms, and authentication. You'll learn to deploy your website into production, switch between local and production environments, write robust tests, and utilize environment variables for better security. The edition also covers custom signup, login, logout, password change, and password reset functionalities, along with integrating powerful third-party Django packages to enhance key features. This revised edition reflects the latest Django release and best practices, including function and class-based views, an in-depth Company Website project, and an updated deployment guide with the latest third-party