Django 4 by Example - Antonio Melé [packt] 2022

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Repository is a continuation of django3-learning based on book of Antonio Melé - Django 3 By Example.

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Requirements

Project is based on Python 3.10.* and Django 4.1.0

All required packages are in requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Add new package to requirements.in and compile new file by

pip-compile

To add and install new package run

pip-compile && pip-sync

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Pre-commit hooks

To add new pre-commit hook, edit .pre-commit-config.yaml

Then install new hooks by

pre-commit install

and check if everythin passes by

pre-commit run --all-files

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Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis and Flower

Terminal 1

docker run -it --rm --name rabbitmq -p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 rabbitmq:management

Termina 2

celery -A myshop worker -l info

Terminal 3

celery -A myshop flower

Terminal 4

docker run -it --rm --name redis -p 6379:6379 redis

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Stripe CLI

stripe login
stripe listen --forward-to localhost:8000/payment/webhook/

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Memchacked

docker pull memcached
docker run -it --rm --name memcached -p 11211:11211 memcached -m 64

Covered chapters

• Chapter 8: Building an Online Shop

  • Creating an online shop project
  • Building a shopping cart
  • Registering customer orders
  • Asynchronous tasks

• Chapter 9: Managing Payments and Orders

  • Integrating a payment gateway
  • Exporting orders to CSV files
  • Extending the administration site with custom views
  • Generating PDF invoices dynamically

• Chapter 10: Extending Your Shop

  • Creating a coupon system
  • Building a recommendation engine

• Chapter 11: Adding Internationalization to Your Shop

  • Preparing your project for internationalization
  • Translating Python code
  • Translating templates
  • Rosetta
  • Fuzzy translations
  • URL patterns
  • Switching languages
  • django-parler
  • Format localization
  • django-localflavor

• Chapter 12: Building an E-Learning Platform

  • Setting up the e-learning project
  • Serving media files
  • Building the course models
  • Creating models for polymorphic content
  • Adding authentication views

• Chapter 13: Creating a Content Management System

  • Creating a CMS
  • Managing course modules and the contents

• Chapter 14: Rendering and Caching Content

  • Displaying courses
  • Adding student registration
  • Accessing the course contents
  • Using the cache framework

• Chapter 15: Building an API

  • Building a RESTful API

• Chapter 16: Building a Chat Server

  • Creating a chat application
  • Real-time Django with Channels
  • Installing Channels
  • Writing a consumer
  • Routing
  • Implementing the WebSocket client
  • Enabling a channel layer
  • Modifying the consumer to be fully asynchronous
  • Integrating the chat application with existing views

• Chapter 17: Going Live

  • Creating a production environment
  • Using Docker Compose
  • Serving Django through WSGI and NGINX
  • Securing your site with SSL/TLS
  • Using Daphne for Django Channels
  • Creating a custom middleware
  • Implementing custom management commands

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Chapter 8 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Static files for the project
• Django session settings
• Django built-in context processors
• Information about RequestContext
• Celery documentation
• Introduction to Celery
• Official RabbitMQ Docker image
• RabbitMQ installation instructions
• Flower documentation

Chapter 9 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Stripe website
• Stripe Checkout documentation
• Creating a Stripe account
• Stripe account settings
• Stripe Python library
• Stripe test API keys
• Stripe API keys documentation
• Stripe API version 2022-08-01 release notes
• Stripe checkout session modes
• Building absolute URIs with Django
• Creating Stripe sessions
• Stripe-supported currencies
• Stripe Payments dashboard
• Credit cards for testing payments with Stripe
• Stripe webhooks
• Types of events sent by Stripe
• Installing the Stripe CLI
• Latest Stripe CLI release
• Generating CSV files with Django
• Django administration templates
• Outputting PDF files with ReportLab
• Installing WeasyPrint
• Static files for this chapter

Chapter 10 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Discounts for Stripe Checkout
• The Redis ZUNIONSTORE command

Chapter 11 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• List of valid language IDs
• List of internationalization and localization settings
• Homebrew package manager
• Installing gettext on Windows
• Precompiled gettext binary installer for Windows
• Documentation about translations
• Poedit translation file editor
• Documentation for Django Rosetta
• The django-parler module’s compatibility with Django
• Documentation for django-parler
• Django formatting configuration for the Spanish locale
• Django format localization
• Documentation for django-localflavor

Chapter 12 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Using Django fixtures for testing
• Data migrations
• Creating custom model fields
• Static directory for the e-learning project

Chapter 13 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Django mixins documentation
• Creating custom permissions
• Django formsets
• Django model formsets
• HTML5 drag-and-drop API
• HTML5 Sortable library documentation
• HTML5 Sortable library examples
• django-braces documentation

Chapter 14 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• django-embed-video documentation
• Django’s cache framework documentation
• Memcached downloads
• Memcached official website
• Pymemcache 's source code
• Django Redisboard’s source code

Chapter 15 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• REST framework website
• REST framework settings
• REST framework renderers
• REST framework parsers
• REST framework generic mixins and views
• Download curl
• Postman API platform
• REST framework serializers
• HTTP basic authentication
• REST framework authentication
• REST framework permissions
• REST framework ViewSets
• REST framework routers
• Python Requests library documentation
• Authentication with the Requests library

Chapter 16 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Introduction to ASGI
• Django support for asynchronous views
• Django support for asynchronous class-based views
• Django Channels documentation
• Deploying Django with ASGI
• json_script template filter usage

Chapter 17 - Additional resources

• Source code for this chapter
• Docker Compose overview
• Installing Docker Desktop
• Official Python Docker image
• Dockerfile reference
• requirements.txt file for this chapter
• YAML file example
• Dockerfile build section
• Docker restart policy
• Docker volumes
• Docker Compose specification
• Official PostgreSQL Docker image
• wait-for-it.sh Bash script for Docker
• Service startup order in Compose
• Official Redis Docker image
• WSGI documentation
• List of uWSGI options
• Official NGINX Docker image
• NGINX documentation
• ALLOWED_HOSTS setting
• Django’s system check framework
• HTTP Strict Transport Security policy with Django
• Django deployment checklist
• Self-generated SSL/TLS certificate directory
• Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority
• Daphne source code
• Using Docker Compose in production
• Docker Swarm mode
• Kubernetes
• Django middleware
• Creating custom management commands