Practical Django 2 and Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities - Softcover

Marani, Federico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484240987 ISBN 13: 9781484240984

Publisher: Apress, 2018

Synopsis

Learn how to rapidly build your own ecommerce site by applying Django’s battle-tested components. This book demonstrates Django’s features and conventions to help you develop modern web applications quickly. You'll adopt a "learn by doing" approach and gain a deeper understanding Django by working through a project in which the real-time component will be critical. 

The book starts with the basics and explains the difference between a Django project and a Django app, the most important settings, how to change them, and the fundamentals of packaging. You'll then be introduced to all the standard tools of Django, along with a sample project. The book then moves on to Channels, a recent addition to the Django ecosystem. It extends the framework with support for real-time operations such as Websockets and other asynchronous features.

Practical Django 2 and Channels 2 provides the practical concepts needed to create complex, database-driven websitesas easily as possible.

What You'll Learn

• Build and deploy a simple company site with Django
  
• Develop more complex, data-heavy sites using the Django ORM
• Integrate Django with Channels
• Unit-test your solutions

Who This Book Is For

Python developers and web developers wanting to learn Django 2 and Channels 2

About this title

About the Author

Federico Marani has been a freelance software engineer and DevOps specialist for over 15 years. With a background in Computer Science and a Msc in Business Psychology, he has worked in companies ranging from e-commerce, finance, medical and banking companies. He started developing web applications with Python 1.5.2 on RedHat systems hasbeen using Django since the first 1.x versions, more than 8 years ago. He now consults on technology strategy and tech teams with startups, and still very hands-on with coding. Open sourced a lot of code online, some of which is part of GNU Social. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums and running.

From the Back Cover

Learn how to rapidly build your own ecommerce site by applying Django’s battle-tested components. This book demonstrates Django’s features and conventions to help you develop modern web applications quickly. You'll adopt a "learn by doing" approach and gain a deeper understanding Django by working through a project in which the real-time component will be critical. 

The book starts with the basics and explains the difference between a Django project and a Django app, the most important settings, how to change them, and the fundamentals of packaging. You'll then be introduced to all the standard tools of Django, along with a sample project. The book then moves on to Channels, a recent addition to the Django ecosystem. It extends the framework with support for real-time operations such as Websockets and other asynchronous features.

Practical Django 2 and Channels 2 provides the practical concepts needed to create complex, database-driven websites as easily as possible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484240987
• ISBN 13: 9781484240984
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 425