Practical Django 2 and Channels 2: Building Projects and Applications with Real-Time Capabilities

ISBN-13: 9781484240984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 409 str.

Federico Marani

Spis treści

Practical Django 2 and Channels 2

1. Introduction to Django and basic concepts

2. Getting started with a simple company site

3. Adding the product catalogue to the site

4. A checkout system for receiving orders online

5. Adding CSS/Javascript to our Django project

6. Using external libraries in our project

7. Making an internal dashboard for the company

8. How to deploy Django sites

9.A stock trading platform using Channels

10. Dynamic charting with Channels and Websockets

11. Off-line realtime processing of trades

O autorze

Federico Marani has been a freelance software engineer and DevOps specialist for over 15 years. With a background in Computer Science and a Msc in Business Psychology, he has worked in companies ranging from e-commerce, finance, medical and banking companies. He started developing web applications with Python 1.5.2 on RedHat systems hasbeen using Django since the first 1.x versions, more than 8 years ago. He now consults on technology strategy and tech teams with startups, and still very hands-on with coding. Open sourced a lot of code online, some of which is part of GNU Social. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums and running.

Blurb

Learn how to rapidly build your own ecommerce site by applying Django’s battle-tested components. This book demonstrates Django’s features and conventions to help you develop modern web applications quickly. You'll adopt a "learn by doing" approach and gain a deeper understanding Django by working through a project in which the real-time component will be critical. 

The book starts with the basics and explains the difference between a Django project and a Django app, the most important settings, how to change them, and the fundamentals of packaging. You'll then be introduced to all the standard tools of Django, along with a sample project. The book then moves on to Channels, a recent addition to the Django ecosystem. It extends the framework with support for real-time operations such as Websockets and other asynchronous features.

Practical Django 2 and Channels 2 provides the practical concepts needed to create complex, database-driven websites as easily as possible.