Beginning Django

(See the 1.11 LTS version - Table of contents)

1. Introduction to the Django framework

• Django design principles

• Install Django

• Start a Django project

• Set up a database for a Django project

• Set up content, understand Django urls, templates and apps

• Set up the Django admin site

2. Django urls & views

• Url paths and regular expressions

• Url parameters, extra options & query strings

• Url consolidation and modularization

• Url naming and namespaces

• View method requests

• View method responses

• View method middleware

• Middleware flash messages in view methods

• Class-based views

3. Django templates

• Django template syntax

• Django template configuration

• Create reusable Django templates

• Built-in Django context processors

• Custom Django context processors

• Built-in Django filters

• Built-in Django tags

• Custom Django filters for Django templates

4. Jinja templates in Django

• Jinja advantages & disadvantages

• Transition to Jinja templates from Django templates

• Jinja template configuration in Django

• Create reusable Jinja templates

• Jinja globals: Access data on all Jinja templates, like Django context processors

• Jinja built-in statements/tags and functions (like Django template tags)

• Jinja built-in filters & tests (like Django filters)

• Custom filters & tests in Jinja

• Jinja extensions

• Jinja policies

5. Django application management

• Django settings.py for the real world

• Set up Django on a WSGI/ASGI server

• Set up static web page resources -- Images, CSS, JavaScript

• Django logging

• Django email service

• Debug Django applications

• Django management commands

6. Django forms

• Django form structure and workflow

• Django form processing: Initialization, field access, validation and error handling

• Django form field types: Widgets, options and validations

• Set up the layout for Django forms in templates

• Django custom form fields and widgets

• Django advanced form processing: Partial forms, AJAX and files

• Django formsets

7. Django models

• Django models and the migrations workflow

• Django model data types

• Django model default and custom behaviors

• Relationships in Django models

• Django model transactions

• Django model migrations

• Django model database tasks

• Django model initial data set up

• Django model signals

• Django models outside of models.py

• Django models and multiple databases

8. Django model queries and managers

• CRUD single records in Django models

• CRUD multiple records in Django models

• CRUD relationship records across Django models

• Model queries by SQL keyword

• Model queries with raw (open-ended) SQL

• Model managers

9. Django model forms & class views

• Django model form structure, options and field mapping

• Django model forms with relationships

• Django model form processing

• Django model formsets

• Class-based views with models

10. Django user management

• Introduction to the Django user system

• Permission checks and enforcement

• User authentication and auto-management

• Custom User model fields

• Custom authentication back-ends

• User management with Django allauth

• Social authentication with Django allauth

11. Django admin management

• Set up Django models in the Django admin

• Django admin read record options

• Django admin create, update, delete record options

• Django admin custom page layout, data & behaviors

• Django admin CRUD permissions

• Multiple Django admin sites

12. REST services with Django

• Introduction to REST services options for Django

• Django REST framework concepts and introduction

• Django REST framework security

13. Django i18n, L10n and time zones

• Default Django i18n, L10n & time zone behavior

• Django language selection workflow

• Django locale message bundles

14. Django search

• Introduction to search options for Django

15. Django async applications

• Introduction to async web applications for Python & Django

1. Python basics

• Strings, unicode and other annoying text behaviors

• Methods: Default, optional, *args & **kwargs arguments

• Classes and subclasses

• Loops, iterators and generators

• List comprehensions, generator expressions, maps and filters

• Lambda keyword for anonymous methods

• Asynchronous behavior: Coroutines, threads, processes, event loops, asyncio, async & await