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Web Development with Django

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212505
Pages 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (5):
Ben Shaw Ben Shaw
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Chris Guest Chris Guest
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to Django 2. Models and Migrations 3. URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Introduction to Django Admin 5. Serving Static Files 6. Forms 7. Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Sessions and Authentication 10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Building a REST API 13. Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Testing 15. Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django

JavaScript Frameworks

These days, real-time interactivity is a fundamental part of web applications. While simple interactions can be added without a framework (developing without a framework is often called Vanilla JS), as your web application grows, it can be much easier to manage with the use of a framework. Without a framework, you would need to do all these things yourself:

  • Manually define the database schema.
  • Convert data from HTTP requests into native objects.
  • Write form validation.
  • Write SQL queries to save data.
  • Construct HTML to show a response.

Compare this to what Django provides. Its ORM (Object Relational Mapping), automatic form parsing and validation, and templating drastically cut down on the amount of code you need to write. JavaScript frameworks bring similar time-saving enhancements to JavaScript development. Without them, you would have to manually update the HTML elements in the browser as your data changes. Let's take a simple...

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