Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django.

The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain.

This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.

What You Will Learn

• Use Django to access user-submitted form data, validate it, and work with it
• Get to know advanced URLconf tips and tricks
• Extend Django’s template system with custom code
• Define models and use the database API to create, retrieve, update, and delete records
• Fully extend and customize the default implementation as per your project’s needs
• Test and deploy your Django application
• Get to know more about Django’s session, cache Framework, and middleware

Delivers absolutely everything you will ever need to know to become a master Django programmer