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Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django Paperback – 11 August 2020

by William S Vincent (Author)

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Completely updated for Django 3.1

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
Write comprehensive tests
Adopt advanced security and performance improvements
Add search and file/image uploads

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.
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"If you're looking for a guide into the world of Django, then the three-step of Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals is ideal: get up and running, get into APIs, which are a cornerstone of modern app development, and then add the bits you need to your fledging app into production, from databases and static files, to user accounts and security. It's a long road. Will's books are an awesome companion."-CARLTON GIBSON, Django Fellow and Django REST Framework core contributor

"When readers interested in web development ask me what to read next after Python Crash Course, I refer them to Will's books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals. I highly recommend you check out his work."-ERIC MATTHES, author of Python Crash Course

"Will's books are a fantastic resource for web development with Django and Python. I highly recommended them."-JEFF TRIPLETT, Python Software Foundation Director, DEFNA President, and REVSYS Partner

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Paperback : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 1735467235
ISBN-13 : 978-1735467238
Language: : English

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Matthew S. Lalonde

Excellent Book, DO NOT PURCHASE KINDLE EDITION

23 September 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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I purchased this book b/c I want to put some code that I wrote onto a website, and learn how to build the website the right way. I don't know html, css, or javascript, and I know very little about shell scripting. Django is free, actively maintained, stable, and flexible, and it uses Python, which is the only programming language I know well, so it (Django) was a good choice for a framework.

I'm currently ~45% of the way through the book, and I couldn't be more impressed. Every choice was made thoughtfully (postgresql, bootstrap, docker, allauth, etc.), with explanations for why the author chose each. The example build is also very thorough, in that it incorporates a lot of the functionality you'd want in a website.

One thing that makes this book exceptional is the completeness and accuracy of the code - it assumes the reader has some basic knowledge of python, and knows very little about orther languages. AND all the code works. There is nothing more frustrating than learning how to do something from flawed or incomplete instructions (my experience with several O'Reilly texts).

Kudos to William Vincent for producing a great resource. I hope he'll keep up with book updates as Django and the tools used in the book continue to mature and change with code updates.

Pro tip: Do NOT purchase the kindle edition. Kindle formatting creates huge problems with code indentation, and breaks it all. Luckily for me, all the code is in GitHub.

8 people found this helpful

Emma K

Probably not the Advanced Django book you're looking for

19 August 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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While this book covers many important topics for Django, it really skimps on the meat of most subjects. I've been working on Django apps for awhile and was looking forward to a deep dive on the features of Django. This book didn't provide.

12 people found this helpful

Micah M

Django for beginners, Pt 2

23 June 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I really wanted to be excited about the second book in Mr. Vincent's Django trilogy. I was severely disappointed.

First of all, for the negatives in no particular order:
- If you are using windows and you don't have the pro version or WSL2, you won't be able to complete any of the docker portions of this book.
- There were numerous errors in the book that didn't match what was on github. After troubleshooting for hours, I went to his repo and downloaded a different but functional file.
- The first several chapters were generally repeats from the first book. The double spacing was more than just a cheap ploy for more pages, it made the content hard to follow at times, trying to compare between pages. It also made the content light.
- Many of the subjects were only partially covered. Just when the topic started to get into the meat of any specific matter, the author would defer with a "beyond the scope of this book" type clause.
- My largest gripe was that even though this was a book for professionals, there wasn't a lot of teaching. Each subject was covered the format of brief explanation followed by pages of source code. No real in depth explanation as to what makes the magic work. Just do this, get that. I was hoping to learn more of how than what with the word professional in the title.

What I did like about this book:
- Other than the few technical errors, skipping anything windows related, and lightness, the chapters were really easy to follow. The instructor is great at giving you a very good idea of what you are about to do.
- The range of subjects was great. Each of the important concepts (advanced authentication, performance, security, testing, etc) were at least mentioned. Some examples were enough to get you started. Others were only detailed enough for you to know to research somewhere else, but the range of topics was exactly what should be there.
- Full source on github. The location is only mentioned a few times in the book, so once you find it, bookmark it. It will be a lifesaver for overlooked code typos.

Overall, unless all three books were sold as one, I don't think I'd purchase again.

3 people found this helpful

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I Am Impressed

3 May 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I am really impressed with this book. It has good size print and visual aids. The flow made it really easy to get through. The author did a great job explaining how things are done and why it works that way without making the book overly complicated. He explains in a couple sentences what most books take a paragraph to do. I am pleased with how he continues to repeat repetitive steps, code, and commands rather than just telling you to refer back to chapter whatever. It makes learning the process quicker. I wasn't new to Django, but this book does things a little differently than I've done on some projects so having that repetition made things a lot easier for me to change some of my practices to better ones. I didn't read any of his other books before purchasing this one. No one book is going to give you everything you need to know on this subject. As the author states though, this is not a beginner's book and you'll have an easier time if you're already introduced to Django whether it's the author's beginner book or another one. I'm really pleased with this purchase. I have multiple books on Django and this is one of the clearest and concise ones I own now. And keep in mind there's plenty of ways to do the same things with Django so having multiple books will help you decide which ways work best for you. I deviate from this book in a few different instances for what works best for my current project, but I'm very pleased with this purchase. I think this is definitely one of the books you should own if you are planning to work with Django.

One downside to mention: If you get the physical book, it makes references to links that aren't there. Obviously they'd be clickable if you have the Kindle version, but it would have been nice to write out the links in case someone was curious and willing to type the link into the browser.

One person found this helpful

Anton

don't have "windows professional" this book not for you

17 February 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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author very badly describe how to work with book after/if any update take place, this book is expensive trash!

3 people found this helpful

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