Django for APIs


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Completely updated for Django 4.0 & Django REST Framework 3.13! Django for APIs is a project-based guide to building modern web APIs with Django & Django REST Framework. It is suitable for beginners who have never built an API before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced introduction to Django fundamentals and best practices. Over the course of 200+ pages you'll learn how to set up a new project properly, how web APIs work under the hood, and advanced testing and deployment techniques. Three separate projects are built from scratch with progressively more advanced features including a Library API, Todo API, and Blog API. User authentication, permissions, documentation, viewsets, and routers are all covered thoroughly. Django for APIs is a best-practices guide to building powerful Python-based web APIs with a minimal amount of code.




Django for APIs


Book Description

Completely updated for Django 3.1 & Django REST Framework 3.11 Django for APIs is a project-based guide to building modern APIs with Django & Django REST Framework. It is suitable for beginners who have never built an API before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced introduction to Django fundamentals and best practices. In the book you'll learn how to: Build 3 Django backends from scratch, including a Library API, Todo API, and Blog API Connect to a React JavaScript front-end Integrate user authentication: basic, sessions, and tokens Add permissions and proper documentation Use viewsets and routers for concise code If you're curious about Python-based APIs, Django for APIs is a best-practices guide to writing and customizing your own quickly. Reviews "If you're looking for a guide into the world of Django, then the three-step of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals is ideal: get up and running, get into APIs, which are a cornerstone of modern app development, and then add the bits you need to your fledging app into production, from databases and static files, to user accounts and security. It's a long road. Will's books are an awesome companion."-CARLTON GIBSON, Django Fellow and Django REST Framework core contributor "When readers interested in web development ask me what to read next after Python Crash Course, I refer them to Will's books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I highly recommend you check out his work."-ERIC MATTHES, author of Python Crash Course "Will's books are a fantastic resource for web development with Django and Python. I highly recommended them."-JEFF TRIPLETT, Python Software Foundation Director, DEFNA President, and REVSYS Partner




Django for APIs


Book Description

Learn how to build web APIs with Python and Django 2.2. Take a modern API-first approach to creating 3 different Django back-ends: a Library API, Todo API, and a Blog API with user authentication, permissions, proper documentation, and more. You'll even learn how to connect them to a React front-end for a truly full-stack web application. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Web APIs Chapter 2: Library website and API Chapter 3: Todo API Chapter 4: Todo React Frontend Chapter 5: Blog API Chapter 6: Permissions Chapter 7: User Authentication Chapter 8: Viewsets and Routers Chapter 9: Schemas and Documentation Conclusion




Django for Professionals


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Completely updated for Django 4.0! 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 * Customize permissions to control user access * Write comprehensive tests * Adopt advanced security and performance improvements * Add search and file/image uploads * Deploy with confidence 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.




Lightweight Django


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How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects. Learn how to make the most of Django’s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the lightweight applications you want. Once you finish this book, you’ll know how to build single-page applications that respond to interactions in real time. If you’re familiar with Python and JavaScript, you’re good to go. Learn a lightweight approach for starting a new Django project Break reusable applications into smaller services that communicate with one another Create a static, rapid prototyping site as a scaffold for websites and applications Build a REST API with django-rest-framework Learn how to use Django with the Backbone.js MVC framework Create a single-page web application on top of your REST API Integrate real-time features with WebSockets and the Tornado networking library Use the book’s code-driven examples in your own projects




Django RESTful Web Services


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Django is a Python web framework that makes the web development process very easy. It reduces the amount of trivial code that simplifies the creation of web applications and results in faster development. It is a very powerful and a great choice for creating RESTful web services. If you are a python developer who wants to create RESTful web ...




Django for Beginners


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Learn how to build, test, and deploy real-world web applications using Python and Django.




Test-Driven Development with Python


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By taking you through the development of a real web application from beginning to end, the second edition of this hands-on guide demonstrates the practical advantages of test-driven development (TDD) with Python. You’ll learn how to write and run tests before building each part of your app, and then develop the minimum amount of code required to pass those tests. The result? Clean code that works. In the process, you’ll learn the basics of Django, Selenium, Git, jQuery, and Mock, along with current web development techniques. If you’re ready to take your Python skills to the next level, this book—updated for Python 3.6—clearly demonstrates how TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence. Dive into the TDD workflow, including the unit test/code cycle and refactoring Use unit tests for classes and functions, and functional tests for user interactions within the browser Learn when and how to use mock objects, and the pros and cons of isolated vs. integrated tests Test and automate your deployments with a staging server Apply tests to the third-party plugins you integrate into your site Run tests automatically by using a Continuous Integration environment Use TDD to build a REST API with a front-end Ajax interface




Django Design Patterns and Best Practices


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Learning to build more maintainable websites with Django either takes a lot of experience or familiarity with various pragmatic design patterns. This book will accelerate your journey into the world of web development. This new edition is updated with additional chapters and diagrams to help you get to grips with the current best practices in ...




Web Development with Django


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Django is a popular Python-based framework for web application development. Like Python, Django is easy for beginners to learn and enables constant progress. This book will help aspiring web developers gain the skills to use Django to develop robust web apps.