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Django 5 By Example

Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

Antonio Melé Paolo Melchiorre

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Packt Publishing Limited
30 April 2024
2025 EDITION: Build four fully functional real-world Django applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, REST APIs, and more! Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.

Key Features

Updated with the latest Django 5.2 features, detailed app planning, improved tooling, and GPT prompts for extending projects Learn Django essentials, including models, ORM, views, templates, URLs, forms, authentication, signals, and middleware Integrate JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, and Memcached into your applications

Book DescriptionIf you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you. This 2025 EDITION, fully updated to Django 5.2 LTS, is the fifth edition of the best-selling

Django By Example franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django. This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.

What you will learn

Use various Django modules to solve specific problems using the latest features Integrate third-party Django applications into your project Build complex web applications using Redis, Postgres, Celery/RabbitMQ and Memcached Set up a production environment for your project with Docker Compose Build a RESTful API with Django Rest Framework (DRF) Implement advanced functionalities, such as full-text search engines, user activity streams, payment gateways, and recommender engines Build real-time asynchronous (ASGI) apps with Django Channels and WebSockets

Who this book is forThis book is for readers with basic Python programming knowledge and programmers transitioning from other web frameworks who wish to learn Django by doing. If you already use Django, or have in the past, and want to learn best practices and integrate other technologies to scale your applications, then this book is for you too. This book will help you master the most relevant areas of the framework by building practical projects from scratch.

Some previous knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is assumed.
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Imprint:   Packt Publishing Limited
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 191mm, 
ISBN:   9781805125457
ISBN 10:   1805125451
Pages:   826
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Table of Contents Building a Blog Application Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features Extending Your Blog Application Building a Social Website Implementing Social Authentication Sharing Content on Your Website Tracking User Actions Building an Online Shop Managing Payments and Orders Extending Your Shop Adding Internationalization to Your Shop Building an E-Learning Platform Creating a Content Management System Rendering and Caching Content Building an API Building a Chat Server Going Live

Antonio Melé is Founder and CTO of Orbio AI, an agentic AI platform that empowers HR teams. He previously founded Nucoro, a fintech platform for building wealth management digital products, which was acquired by Backbase in 2023. Antonio has been developing Django projects since 2006 for clients across several industries. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a development company specialized in building digital products. He has been working as a CTO and technology consultant for multiple technology-based startups and he has managed development teams building projects for large digital businesses. Antonio holds an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.

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