Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django

Introduction....10

Prerequisites....10

Book Structure....11

Book Layout....13

Community....13

Conclusion....14

Chapter 1: Initial Set Up....15

The Command Line....15

Install Python 3....17

Text Editor....18

Install Git....19

Conclusion....21

Chapter 2: Docker Hello, World!....22

What is Docker?....22

Virtual Environments vs Containers....24

Install Docker....24

Docker Hello, World....25

Install Django....26

Django Hello, World....28

Pages App....29

Docker Image....32

Dockerfile....33

.dockerignore....35

docker-compose.yml....35

Git....38

Conclusion....39

Chapter 3: PostgreSQL....40

Django Set Up....40

Docker....42

Detached Mode....44

PostgreSQL....46

docker-compose.yml....48

DATABASES....49

New Database....50

Git....51

Conclusion....52

Chapter 4: Bookstore Project....53

Docker....54

PostgreSQL....56

Custom User Model....57

Custom User Forms....59

Custom User Admin....60

Superuser....61

Tests....62

Unit Tests....63

Git....64

Conclusion....64

Chapter 5: Pages App....65

Templates....65

URLs and Views....67

Tests....69

Testing Templates....70

Testing HTML....71

setUp()....72

Resolve....73

Git....74

Conclusion....75

Chapter 6: User Registration....76

Auth App....76

Auth URLs and Views....77

Homepage....78

Django Source Code....79

Log In....81

Redirects....83

Log Out....85

Sign Up....86

Tests....90

Git....92

Conclusion....92

Chapter 7: Static Assets....93

Local Development....93

STATICFILES_DIRS....94

CSS....95

Images....96

JavaScript....97

Production....98

Bootstrap....100

About Page....103

About Page Tests....105

Django Crispy Forms....106

Git....109

Conclusion....109

Chapter 8: Advanced User Registration....110

django-allauth....110

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS....112

EMAIL_BACKEND....112

ACCOUNT_LOGOUT_REDIRECT....113

URLs....114

Templates....114

Log In....116

Log Out....117

Sign Up....118

Admin....121

Email Only Login....122

Tests....124

Social....126

Git....126

Conclusion....126

Chapter 9: Environment Variables....127

Environs....127

SECRET_KEY....128

DEBUG and ALLOWED_HOSTS....130

DATABASES....132

Git....132

Conclusion....133

Chapter 10: Email....134

Custom Confirmation Emails....134

Email Confirmation Page....139

Password Reset and Password Change....140

Email Service....141

Git....142

Conclusion....142

Chapter 11: Books App....143

Models....143

Admin....145

URLs....147

Views....148

Templates....148

object_list....149

Individual Book Page....150

context_object_name....152

Adding URLs....153

get_absolute_url....154

Primary Keys vs. IDs....155

Slugs vs. UUIDs....155

Tests....158

Git....159

Conclusion....160

Chapter 12: Reviews App....161

Foreign Keys....161

Reviews model....162

Admin....163

Templates....166

Tests....167

Git....169

Conclusion....169

Chapter 13: File/Image Uploads....170

Media Files....170

Models....172

Admin....173

Template....174

django-storages....177

Next Steps....177

Git....178

Conclusion....178

Chapter 14: Permissions....179

Logged-In Users Only....179

Permissions....180

Custom Permissions....180

User Permissions....182

PermissionRequiredMixin....184

Groups & UserPassesTestMixin....186

Tests....186

Git....188

Conclusion....188

Chapter 15: Search....190

Search Results Page....190

Basic Filtering....192

Q Objects....193

Forms....194

Search Form....195

Git....197

Conclusion....197

Chapter 16: Performance....199

django-debug-toolbar....199

Analyzing Pages....202

select_related and prefetch_related....207

Indexes....210

Caching....211

Front-end Assets....213

Next Steps....214

Git....214

Conclusion....214

Chapter 17: Security....215

Social Engineering....215

Django updates....215

Deployment Checklist....216

docker-compose-prod.yml....217

DEBUG....218

Defaults....219

SECRET_KEY....220

Web Security....221

SQL injection....222

XSS (Cross Site Scripting)....222

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)....223

Clickjacking Protection....224

HTTPS/SSL....225

SSL Error....226

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)....227

Secure Cookies....228

Admin Hardening....229

Git....230

Conclusion....230

Chapter 18: Deployment....232

PaaS vs IaaS....232

WhiteNoise....233

Media Files....234

Gunicorn....235

Heroku....236

Deploying with Docker....236

Heroku Deployment....237

ALLOWED_HOSTS....240

Doing It Live!....241

SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER....242

Production Database....243

Heroku Logs....244

Conclusion....244

Conclusion....245

Learning Resources....246

Feedback....246

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.