Bendoraitis Aidas. Web Development with Django Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2014. — 663 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78328-689-8.The Django framework is relatively easy to learn and it solves many web-related questions such as project structure, database object-relational mapping, templating, form validation, sessions, authentication, security, cookies, internationalization, basic administration, creating interfaces to access data from scripts, and more. Django is based on the Python programming language, whose code is clear and easy to read. Django also has a lot of third-party modules that can be used in conjunction with your own apps. Django has an established and vibrant community where you can find source code, get help, and contribute.
Django Web Development Cookbook will guide you through all web development processes with the Django 1.6 framework. You will get started with the virtual environment and configuration of the project and then you will learn how to define a database structure with reusable components. After this, you will move on to exploring the forms and views used to enter and list data. Then, you will continue with responsive templates and JavaScript to create the best user experience. After that, you will find out how to tweak the administration to make the website editors happy. You will also learn
how to integrate your own functionality into Django CMS. The next step will be learning how to use hierarchical structures. Then, you will find out that collecting data from different sources and providing data to others in different formats isn’t as difficult as you thought. And finally, you’ll be introduced to some programming and debugging tricks and will be shown how to deploy the project to a remote dedicated server.
In contrast to other Django books, this book will deal not only with the code of the framework itself, but also with some important third-party modules necessary for fully equipped web development. The book also gives examples of rich user interfaces using the Bootstrap frontend framework and the jQuery JavaScript library.