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Django Essentials

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Develop simple web applications with the powerful Django frameworkAbout This Book

Get to know MVC pattern and the structure of Django

Create your first webpage with Django mechanisms

Enable user interaction with forms

Program extremely rapid forms with Django features.

Explore the best practices to develop applications of a superior quality


Who This Book Is ForThis is an ideal book for developers who want to improve the quality and maintenance of their web application, and who already have knowledge of Python and web development.

What You Will Learn

Utilize the MVC pattern to create web applications

Use Django models to store information in the database and generate queries to access a database across models

Generate very maintainable forms with Django

Quickly develop web pages to create, read, update, and delete data from the model using class-based views

Construct users by using an authentication module to restrict access to certain pages

Use AJAX with Django

Install your website on Linux and access it through the Internet


In DetailDjango is a powerful Python web framework designed for rapid web application development. With the advent of frameworks such as Django, web developers have been forced to adopt MVC architectures and are encouraged to develop quality code. This quality allows several developers to work together easily and reduces the number of bugs due to human errors.


Beginning with the basics of the Web and Django, the book explains the MVC pattern. It then moves on to explain the step-by-step installation of Python, PIP, and Django on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. Furthermore, you will learn how to create templates, models, forms, and so on. After reading the book, you will be able to quickly create dynamic web applications with AJAX and an admin part.


This book features a step-by-step approach that shows you how to program, create, and improve the quality of web applications using Django, with the help of Python.

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 20, 2014

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Samuel Dauzon

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February 25, 2015
Covers the same material as Getting Started with Django (same author) but with fewer annoying errors/typos and translation mistakes. In hindsight, after learning a bit of Django, two main flaws stands out: (i) poor exposition where inline comments in the code contain major components of the exposition and are difficult to read, and (ii) couple of bad practices used in the book.
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