Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8 (pdf)

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Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Coding Style
• Chapter 2: The Optimal Django Environment Setup
• Chapter 3: How To Lay Out Django Projects
• Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Django App Design
• Chapter 5: Settings and Requirements Files
• Chapter 6: Model Best Practices
• Chapter 7: Queries and the Database Layer
• Chapter 8: Function- and Class-Based Views
• Chapter 9: Best Practices for Function-Based Views
• Chapter 10: Best Practices for Class-Based Views
• Chapter 11: Form Fundamentals
• Chapter 12: Common Patterns for Forms
• Chapter 13: Templates: Best Practices
• Chapter 14: Template Tags and Filters
• Chapter 15: Django Templates and Jinja2
• Chapter 16: Building REST APIs
• Chapter 17: Consuming REST APIs
• Chapter 18: Tradeoffs of Replacing Core Components
• Chapter 19: Working With the Django Admin
• Chapter 20: Dealing with the User Model
• Chapter 21: Django’s Secret Sauce: Third-Party Packages
• Chapter 22: Testing Chapter of Doom!
• Chapter 23: Documentation: Be Obsessed
• Chapter 24: Finding and Reducing Bottlenecks
• Chapter 25: Asynchronous Task Queues
• Chapter 26: Security Best Practices
• Chapter 27: Logging: Tips and Tools
• Chapter 28: Signals: Use Cases and Avoidance Techniques
• Chapter 29: What About Those Random Utilities?
• Chapter 30: Deployment: Platforms as a Service
• Chapter 31: Deploying Django Projects
• Chapter 29: Identical Environments: The Holy Grail
• Chapter 32: Continuous Integration
• Chapter 33: The Art of Debugging
• Chapter 34: Where and How to Ask Django Questions
• Chapter 35: Closing Thoughts
• Appendix A: Packages Mentioned In This Book
• Appendix B: Troubleshooting
• Appendix C: Additional Resources
• Appendix D: Internationalization and Localization
• Appendix E: Settings Alternatives
• Appendix F: Working with Python 3

What is everyone saying about Two Scoops of Django?

• I read the first edition cover to cover. The second one raises the bar again. It’s pedagogical, entertaining, and thoughtful. — Aymeric Augustin, Django core developer.
• A single read-through of Two Scoops of Django gave me so many lightbulbs and tips; I had to go back for a second helping. — Lynn Root, Spotify engineer, PSF Director, and PyLadies ambassador.
• Make sure you have your favorite project next to you while reading. You’ll be doing some rewriting. — Bryan Veloso, GitHubber, PyCon PH Keynote Speaker
• You know those lessons you learn when projects blow up in your face? This book contains several projects worth of such lessons. — Lennart Regebro, author of “Porting to Python 3”
• This is the book I wished had existed and I could have read when I started to really build Django projects. — Barry Morrison, Linux systems engineer and Django developer