Sanjeev Jaiswal, Ratan Kumar - Learning Django Web Development [2015, PDF/EPUB/MOBI, ENG] + Code

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
Why web development in the first place?
What has changed in web development
The MVC pattern in web development
Why Django?
Supported databases
What you will learn using this book
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Installing the required software
Creating your first project
Chapter 3: Code Style in Django
Django coding style
Using IDE for faster development
Setting up your project with the Sublime text editor
Setting up the PyCharm IDE
The Django project structure
Best practices – using version control
Setting up the database
Launching the development server
Faster web development
Chapter 4: Building an Application Like Twitter
A word about Django terminology
Setting up a basic template application
Installing Django
Setting up the basic Twitter Bootstrap for the application
URLs and views – creating the main page
Introduction to class-based views
Django settings for the mytweets project
Putting it all together – generating user pages
Models – designing an initial database schema
Chapter 5: Introducing Hashtags
The hashtag data model
Designing the tweet post form
Creating a tag page
Chapter 6: Enhancing the User Interface with AJAX
AJAX and its advantages
Using an AJAX framework in Django
Using the open source jQuery framework
Implementing the searching of tweets
Implementing the live searching of tweets
Editing a tweet in place without loading a separate page
Autocompletion of hashtags while submitting a tweet
Chapter 7: Following and Commenting
Letting users follow another user
Displaying the most followed user
Chapter 8: Creating an Administration Interface
Customizing the administration interface
Customizing listing pages
Overriding administration templates
Users, groups, and permissions
Organizing content into pages – pagination
Chapter 9: Extending and Deploying
Sending invitation e-mails to friends
Internationalization (i18n) – offering the site in multiple languages
Caching – improving the performance of your site during high traffic
Unit testing – automating the process of testing your application
Deploying Django
Chapter 10: Extending Django
Custom template tags and filters
Class-based generic views
Contributed sub-frameworks
Flatpages
The message system
The subscription system
User scores
Chapter 11: Database Connectivity
SQL versus NoSQL
Setting up a database system
The single-page application project – URL shortener
Chapter 12: Using Third-party Packages
Diving into the world of open source
Using SocialAuth in Django projects
Building REST APIs in Django
Chapter 13: The Art of Debugging
Logging
Debugging
IPDB – interactive way of busting bugs
Chapter 14: Deploying Django Projects
The production web server
The production database
Turning off the debug mode
Changing configuration variables
Setting error pages
Django on cloud
Chapter 15: What's Next?
AngularJS meets Django
Django search with Elasticsearch
Index