Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django 3.1

✍ Scribed by William S. Vincent

• Publisher: leanpub.com
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Completely updated for Django 3.1 Django for Professionals takes your web development skills to the next level, teaching you how to build production-ready websites with Python and Django. Once you have learned the basics of Django there is a massive gap between building simple "toy apps" and what it takes to build a "production-ready" web application suitable for deployment to thousands or even millions of users. In the book you’ll learn how to:

• Build a Bookstore website from scratch
• Use Docker and PostgreSQL locally to mimic production settings
• Implement advanced user registration with email
• Write comprehensive tests
• Adopt advanced security and performance improvements
• Add search and file/image uploads

If you want to take advantage of all that Django has to offer, Django for Professionals is a comprehensive best practices guide to building and deploying modern websites.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Prerequisites
Book Structure
Book Layout
Text Editor
Conclusion
Chapter 1: Docker
What is Docker?
Containers vs. Virtual Environments
Install Docker
Docker Hello, World
Django Hello, World
Pages App
Images, Containers, and the Docker Host
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 2: PostgreSQL
Starting
Docker
Detached Mode
PostgreSQL
Settings
Psycopg
New Database
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Bookstore Project
Docker
PostgreSQL
Custom User Model
Custom User Forms
Custom User Admin
Superuser
Tests
Unit Tests
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Pages App
Templates
URLs and Views
Tests
Testing Templates
Testing HTML
setUp Method
Resolve
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 5: User Registration
Auth App
Auth URLs and Views
Homepage
Django Source Code
Log In
Redirects
Log Out
Sign Up
Tests
setUpTestData()
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Static Assets
staticfiles app
STATIC_URL
STATICFILES_DIRS
STATIC_ROOT
STATICFILES_FINDERS
Static Directory
Images
JavaScript
collectstatic
Bootstrap
About Page
Django Crispy Forms
Tests
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Advanced User Registration
django-allauth
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
EMAIL_BACKEND
ACCOUNT_LOGOUT_REDIRECT
URLs
Templates
Log In
Log Out
Sign Up
Admin
Email Only Login
Tests
Social
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Environment Variables
environs[django
SECRET_KEY
DEBUG and ALLOWED_HOSTS
DATABASES
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Email
Custom Confirmation Emails
Email Confirmation Page
Password Reset and Password Change
Email Service
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Books App
Models
Admin
URLs
Views
Templates
object_list
Individual Book Page
context_object_name
get_absolute_url
Primary Keys vs. IDs
Slugs vs. UUIDs
Navbar
Tests
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Reviews App
Foreign Keys
Reviews model
Admin
Templates
Tests
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 12: File/Image Uploads
Media Files
Models
Admin
Template
Next Steps
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 13: Permissions
Logged-In Users Only
Permissions
Custom Permissions
User Permissions
PermissionRequiredMixin
Groups & UserPassesTestMixin
Tests
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 14: Search
Search Results Page
Basic Filtering
Q Objects
Forms
Search Form
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 15: Performance
django-debug-toolbar
Analyzing Pages
select_related and prefetch_related
Caching
Indexes
django-extensions
Front-end Assets
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 16: Security
Social Engineering
Django updates
Deployment Checklist
docker-compose-prod.yml
DEBUG
Defaults
SECRET_KEY
Web Security
SQL injection
XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Clickjacking Protection
HTTPS/SSL
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Secure Cookies
Admin Hardening
Git
Conclusion
Chapter 17: Deployment
PaaS vs IaaS
WhiteNoise
Media Files
Gunicorn
Heroku
Deploying with Docker
heroku.yml
Heroku Deployment
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER
Heroku Logs
Heroku Add-ons
Conclusion
Conclusion
Learning Resources
Feedback

✦ Subjects

Computers, Programming Languages, Python, Web, Web Programming