Arun Ravindran - Django Design Patterns and Best Practices [2015, PDF, ENG]

1: Django and Patterns
Why Django?
The story of Django
What is a Pattern?
Patterns in this book
Best practices
Summary

2: Application Design
How to gather requirements
Are you a story teller?
HTML mockups
Designing the application
Before starting the project
SuperBook – your mission, should you choose to accept it
Summary

3: Models
M is bigger than V and C
The model hunt
Structural patterns
Retrieval patterns
Migrations
Summary

4: Views and URLs
A view from the top
Class-based generic views
View mixins
Decorators
View patterns
Designing URLs
Summary

5: Templates
Understanding Django's template language features
Organizing templates
Using Bootstrap
Template patterns
Summary

6: Admin Interface
Using the admin interface
Enhancing models for the admin
Admin interface customizations
Protecting the admin
Summary

7: Forms
How forms work
Displaying forms
Understanding CSRF
Form processing with Class-based views
Form patterns
Summary

8: Dealing with Legacy Code
Finding the Django version
Where are the files? This is not PHP
Starting with urls.py
Jumping around the code
Understanding the code base
Incremental change or a full rewrite?
Write tests before making any changes
Legacy databases
Summary

9: Testing and Debugging
Why write tests?
Test-driven development
Writing a test case
Mocking
Pattern – test fixtures and factories
Learning more about testing
Debugging
The print function
Logging
The Django Debug Toolbar
The Python debugger pdb
Other debuggers
Debugging Django templates
Summary

10: Security
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
A handy security checklist
Summary

11: Production-ready
Production environment
Hosting
Deployment tools
Monitoring
Performance
Summary