Author: 👤 William S. Vincent

Type: #book

Genres: #comp-sci #webdev

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Django for Professionals

1 Docker

• What is Docker?
• Docker vs Virtual Environments
• What is a Docker image?
• What is a Docker host?
• Building a Docker image
• Creating docker-compose.yml file
• Run Docker container

2 PostgreSQL

• Use the same database in local development and production
• Running manage.py commands within Docker
• Three steps to switch Django to PostgreSQL
• Creating a Docker PostgreSQL database service
• PostgreSQL database is not file-based
• Updating settings.py to use PostgreSQL
• What is Psycopg?
• Installing Psycopg
• Always install new packages within Docker, not locally
• Rebuild image after installing a package on Docker
• Docker replaces virtual environment

3 Bookstore Project

• What are Docker volumes?
• Setting up a database volume
• Four steps to adding custom user model
• Creating a custom Django user model
• Creating custom user forms
• Creating a custom user admin

4 Pages App

• Using a project-level templates folder
• resolve function

5 User Registration

• Setting up built-in auth app
• Django auth URLs
• Handling login
• Handling logout
• Handling sign up

6 Static Files

• Configuring static files in settings.py
• Creating static directory
• Loading static files into templates
• Using crispy forms

7 Advanced User Registration

• Configuring django-allauth
• Changing the email backend for development
• Changing allauth login requirements

8 Environment Variables

• Storing secret key in environment variable

9 Email

• Customising account confirmation email
• Customising email confirmation page
• Customising password change and reset pages
• Setting up an email service

10 Books App

• Creating a model
• Register new models
• Primary Keys vs IDs
• IDs vs UUIDs in URLs

11 Reviews App

• Creating a foreign key link in Django
• Displaying inline relational fields in admin

12 File/Image Uploads

• Static files vs media files
• Configuring Django for media uploads
• Adding a media attribute to a model

13 Permissions

• Implementing login required behaviour
• Applying custom permissions in Django
• Adding permissions to user for testing