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Django 5 by Example

by Antonio Melé
Paolo Melchiorre
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2025 EDITION: Build four fully functional real-world Django applications with authentication, content management systems, payment processing, REST APIs, and more! Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader*

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. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required 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 for

    This 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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