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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Coding Style
Chapter 2: The Optimal Django Environment Setup
Chapter 3: How To Lay Out Django Projects
Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Django App Design
Chapter 5: Settings and Requirements Files
Chapter 6: Model Best Practices
Chapter 7: Queries and the Database Layer
Chapter 8: Function- and Class-Based Views
Chapter 9: Best Practices for Function-Based Views
Chapter 10: Best Practices for Class-Based Views
Chapter 11: Form Fundamentals
Chapter 12: Common Patterns for Forms
Chapter 13: Templates: Best Practices
Chapter 14: Template Tags and Filters
Chapter 15: Django Templates and Jinja2
Chapter 16: Building REST APIs
Chapter 17: Consuming REST APIs
Chapter 18: Tradeoffs of Replacing Core Components
Chapter 19: Working With the Django Admin
Chapter 20: Dealing with the User Model
Chapter 21: Django's Secret Sauce: Third-Party Packages
Chapter 22: Testing Chapter of Doom!
Chapter 23: Documentation: Be Obsessed
Chapter 24: Finding and Reducing Bottlenecks
Chapter 25: Asynchronous Task Queues
Chapter 26: Security Best Practices
Chapter 27: Logging: Tips and Tools
Chapter 28: Signals: Use Cases and Avoidance Techniques
Chapter 29: What About Those Random Utilities?
Chapter 30: Deployment: Platforms as a Service
Chapter 31: Deploying Django Projects
Chapter 29: Identical Environments: The Holy Grail
Chapter 32: Continuous Integration
Chapter 33: The Art of Debugging
Chapter 34: Where and How to Ask Django Questions
Chapter 35: Closing Thoughts
Appendix A: Packages Mentioned In This Book
Appendix B: Troubleshooting
Appendix C: Additional Resources
Appendix D: Internationalization and Localization
Appendix E: Settings Alternatives
Appendix F: Working with Python 3

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