Django 4.0

Django for Beginners: Build websites with Python and Django

Django for Beginners is a project-based introduction to Django, the popular Python-based web framework. Suitable for total beginners who have never built a website before as well as professional programmers looking for a fast-paced guide to modern web development and Django fundamentals.

In the book you’ll learn how to:

• Build 5 websites from scratch, including a Blog and Newspaper
• Deploy online using security best practices
• Customize the look and feel of your sites
• Write tests and run them for all your code
• Integrate user authentication, email, and custom user models
• Add permissions and authorizations to make your app more secure

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Initial Set Up
• Chapter 2: Hello World App
• Chapter 3: Pages App
• Chapter 4: Messsage Board App
• Chapter 5: Blog App
• Chapter 6: Forms
• Chapter 7: User Accounts
• Chapter 8: Custom User Model
• Chapter 9: User Authentication
• Chapter 10: Bootstrap
• Chapter 11: Password Change and Reset
• Chapter 12: Email
• Chapter 13: Newspaper App
• Chapter 14: Permissions and Authorization
• Chapter 15: Comments
• Chapter 16: Deployment
• Conclusion

Boost Your Django DX

During my years working with Django, I’ve picked up many tools and techniques to boost my Developer Experience, or DX. This book covers as many of these as possible, so you can learn them too!

Contents

The book contains 12 chapters.
Below is a brief summary of the contents - for a complete breakdown see the release post.

1. OriginOpening notes, a description of the included examples, acknowledgements, changelog.
2. DocumentationTools to get you to the right documentation, quicker. Covers DevDocs, DuckDuckGo, Bonus Django Documentation Sites, Wget, and some miscellaneous tips.
3. Virtual Environments and DependenciesManage environments, and the dependencies within, correctly and easily. Covers venv, virtualenv, pip-tools, pip-lock, recommended practices for dependency management, and Python’s development mode.
4. Python ShellEnhance your Python command line experience. Covers IPython and django-read-only.
5. Development ServerMake Django’s runserver better. Covers django-debug-toolbar, Watchman, django-browser-reload, and Rich.
6. Code Quality ToolsThe key tools to improve your code quality. Covers EditorConfig, pre-commit, Black, isort, and Flake8.
7. Further Code Quality ToolsMany extra tools useful for Django development. Covers pyupgrade, django-upgrade, pre-commit-hooks, reorder_python_imports, curlylint, DjHTML, Mypy (barely!), Prettier, ESLint, and Shellcheck.
8. Build Your Own ToolsHow to make your own code quality tools. Covers pre-commit’s virtual languages, how to write and test a Flake8 plugin, and how to write a pre-commit-compatible command line tool.
9. SettingsTips and patterns for managing Django’s settings file. Covers structuring your settings, a template, some patterns to avoid, and testing settings files.
10. Models and MigrationsTips and tools for managing your data. Covers writing a management command to seed your development database, generating data with Factory Boy, migration safeguard practices, and django-linear-migrations.
11. System ChecksMake the most of Django’s built-in runtime code quality framework. Covers how system checks work, how to write and test your own checks, and django-version-checks.
12. TerminusClosing notes with links to further reading, including many things that didn't make it into the book.

Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django

Django 3.2

Speed Up Your Django Tests

At the start of March I started writing a blog post called “How to Speed Up Your Django Tests”. Before I knew it, the outline alone was 4,000 words! I realized writing it up would be a major undertaking. As lockdown arrived, I found the time to write it all up.

So, I’m delighted to announce my new book, coming May 18…

Speed Up Your Django Tests!

It’s a practical guide to making your Django project’s tests faster. It has many tips and tricks that apply to all projects, big and small. And it covers the two most popular test runners: Django’s test framework and pytest.

Reducing test run time is the easiest and safest way to increase your speed of delivery. And it’s an organic way of increasing team happiness!

The content is based on my 8 years of experience with tests on Django projects. I’ve sped up many projects’ test suites, improved Django’s own testing framework, and created several pytest plugins.

It contains 13 chapters:

1. Introduction - Opening notes, how to use the book.
2. Toolbox - A tour of the various tools you can use to change how your tests run.
3. Measure! - The importance of profiling, with walkthroughs using two different profilers on a test suite.
4. Easy Wins - 11 things you can do in 5 minutes to speed up your test suite.
5. Upgrades - The importance of upgrades, and some how-to guidance to get them done easily.
6. Parallelize - How to use test suite parallelization to boost your tests.
7. Migrations - Reduce the overhead of building your test database.
8. Database Configuration - Tweak your database’s configuration to get more speed.
9. CI Configuration - And tweak your CI configuration to boost test speed too.
10. Test Structure - Notes on the best structure for fast, accurate tests, and ways you can restructure.
11. Test Data - The best strategies for creating data in your tests.
12. Targeted Mocking - A guide to mocking, and the best libraries for mocking out specific things such as HTTP requests and time.
13. Outroduction - Closing notes with extra links.

Two Scoops of Django 3.x: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework

540+ pages, 519 while in Alpha

Once again, we're releasing a book chock-full of material that will help you with your Django projects!

In Two Scoops of Django we introduce you to various tips, tricks, patterns, code snippets, and techniques that we’ve picked up over the years. This book is an update and expansion of previous editions:

• Updated for Django 3.x (which will be maintained by the Django core team until at least April 2024!)
• Updated to match changes in the Django ecosystem, with corrections and clarifications added thanks to the feedback of our readers and technical reviewers.
• Updated for Python 3.8 and/or 3.9
• Revised material on nearly every topic within the book.
• New material on GraphQL, Django REST Framework, security, forms, models, and more.

Two Scoops of Django 3.x: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework is available in PDF now, possibly Kindle, ePub, and print formats later.

A Wedge of Django: Covers Python 3.8 and Django 3.x

A Wedge of Djangois a guided walkthrough tutorial where we build a real, production-quality Django web application from the ground up.

Originally a large part of our corporate training materials, this tutorial was once only available to companies paying $3000 a seat for in-person training. The contents of this book are professional-grade and have been used by real software companies to get their engineers up and running fast with Python 3.8 and Django 3.x development.

This book is designed to build solid foundations for any developer looking to get proficient with Django fast. 

Django 3.1

Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python and Django

Django 3.0

Django 3 by Example

Django 3 Web Development Cookbook

Mastering Django

Build a website with Django 3