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Two Scoops of Django 1.11: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework

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Two Scoops of Django 1.11 Will Help You Build Django Projects

In this book we introduce you to the various tips, tricks, patterns, code snippets, and techniques that we've picked up over the years. We have put thousands of hours into the fourth edition of the book, writing and revising its material to include significant improvements and new material based on feedback from previous editions.

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 APIs with Django Rest Framework
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 2
Appendix G: Channels and Websockets

What People Say About Two Scoops of Django

This is the swiss army knife for every Django developer. -- Jannis Gebauer, djangopackages.org maintainer and pyup.io founder
We buy this book for every new engineer on our team. It's a must for Django development! -- Jacinda Shelly, CTO of Doctor On Demand
I wanted to write a book about best practices in Django, except Two Scoops is that book, no need to write another one. -- Buddy Lindsey, Host of GoDjango
Audrey's illustrations reinforce Audrey and Daniel's Django technical excellence. (Art + ice cream) * 2 tech experts = Two Scoops of Django. -- Carol Willing, Project Jupyter Core Dev and Python Software Foundation director
Simply the best book on Django. Whenever I am not sure if I am following the best practices, I look up the topic in this book. A must read. -- Abu Ashraf Masnun, programmer

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Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld are experienced software professionals and co-authors of a series of Python web development books. They have given keynote speeches at numerous academic and professional Python and Django conferences around the world. Hailing experience with NASA and MIT, they has authored various popular open-source utility libraries, which are in production use by thousands of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies.

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- Main Website: roygreenfeld.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/twoscoopspress
- Twitter: twitter.com/twoscoopspress

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Two Scoops Press (June 30, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 555 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692915729
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0692915721
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches

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Daniel Roy Greenfeld has been writing fiction professionally since 2014. His fantasy novels take you on fast-paced epic adventures through magical lands. Knights, mages, and Greek mythology–inspired gods fight for power, often resulting in death and destruction. Young squires in awkwardly-fitting armor and apprentice mages still learning spells are left to clean up the mess. Dryads talk to trees and negotiate with the dead. Youthful romances blossom, only to be interrupted by invasions by dark legions. Chivalry is alive, and love triumphs over race and class divisions.
Daniel is also an experienced software professional and co-author of a series of Python web development books. He has given keynote speeches at numerous academic and professional Python and Django conferences around the world. Daniel has worked for NASA as a senior software engineer. He has authored various popular open-source utility libraries, which are in production use by thousands of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies.
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Audrey Roy Greenfeld is best known for being a programmer. She created the popular Cookiecutter project templating tool in 2013, now open source on GitHub with over 10,000 stars. She is one of the primary authors of Cookiecutter Django, one of the most widely-used Django web application project templates. She graduated from MIT in 2005 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
Audrey also has a deep passion for fiction writing. Her Ambria series, co-written with her husband Daniel Roy Greenfeld, explores a magical world where a boy is forced to grow up suddenly and help his family fight dark forces.
Audrey is also an artist. She paints, sculpts, and creates generative art. At one point she was a professional artist with a studio practice in San Francisco and a large client base. Her work has been featured in Wired, Technology Review, CNN, and the New York Times. She now makes art primarily for herself. Her art studio is currently in Los Angeles.
Audrey has co-written 5 fantasy books and 4 technical books with Daniel Roy Greenfeld. She has also written and illustrated a children's book.
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Benjamin G. Jones
Best framework book in the business, well written and conscientiously updated
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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This is the best Django book out there, but that is not sufficient praise. It is the best framework book I have ever read -- at 440 or so well indexed, well sorted pages, this book is exemplary of what it covers, what it doesn't cover, what it reinforces, and what it allows you to skip and read later.
This book does what a framework should do -- it provides all of the material required for good professional formation -- much more than a quickstart book, much less than an encyclopedia of Django, TSD (as it is abbreviated by the many Django managers that have to mention it too many times to write out) is the book for the typical Django user -- a perfectionist with deadlines.

Reading the 15 chapters absolutely required to create and understand Django sites will take you around 15 hours. Reading all 33 chapters--and being able to apply them all -- will take you about 40, and you will then know everything that should be standard for a Django professional.

I have heard it said that, when you are interviewing a prospective Django developer, hearing a mention of "Two Scoops" or "Greenfield" means that the interview is going to go well.

If you want to learn python, read Mark Lutz's "Learning Python". If you want to use python fluidly, read Beazley and Jones' "Python Cookbook". If you want to __understand__ python, read Luciano Ramalho's "Fluent Python".

If you want to make a living as a business programmer in python, read this book.

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This is probably my favorite technical book I've ever read. It's very thoroughly researched and draws on real world examples, which I found immediately applicable to my current role as a django dev. It's guided me now through multiple projects, and informed a lot of my decisions for which packages to use.

The only cautionary note is that I would stress that while I found it pretty approachable, it shouldn't be regarded as a tutorial on python or django - true beginners should probably go through tutorials and documentation before they could really use this book. I'd also say that while many of the practices are just fine for many projects, what you'll use if you're coming in on an existing project would heavily depend on the architecture that's set up - the sections on forms and templates probably won't be very useful to you if django is used solely as the backend with Django Rest Framework and the frontend is entirely based on React. But even in those cases, there'll be parallels between serializers and forms that will be quite familiar and many of the practices will still be applicable.

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Great way to learn best practices
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Every Django programmer should have this book. It is the go-to source for people who are no longer beginners, and need to figure out Django best practices. For instance, how should you lay out your project? How can you keep your secret keys secret while doing proper version control? Everything else being equal, should you load your business logic into your view or your model? And so on.

When you start to make the transition from noob to intermediate and up, you will have tons of questions like those, and this book lays it all there for you.

One key strength of this book is that each Chapter (and often, each Chapter section) can be read as a standalone tidbit. This is great when I need to figure out something fast, sort of like a portable Stack Overflow. This strength can become a weakness, though, for more complex topics where I am really clueless (such as class-based views). I hunger for more fully worked out examples in the context of a real project.

It would be amazing if they made a companion volume, something like 'Two Scoops in Practice' walking us through a single, complex project, that they explain from beginning to end, that could be used to illustrate the different things in the book. I would buy ten copies of that and hoard it.

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I agree w/ everything said in other 5-star reviews. It's not worth repeating.
What follows is my experience w/ the book as a beginner and now, as an intermediate-level developer.

I bought this book a month or so after I started learning Django.

I had a few small, VERY basic projects under my belt. I asked for a good book so I could fill in some gaps. This was the book that was most recommended.

I read about a tenth of the book and then I just blankly stared as I forced myself through the first 15 chapters. I stopped. I could see there was value in the book but I just wasn't at a level to where I could appreciate or apply b/c I didn't understand it.

I learned 2 things during this 1st attempt: JSON for ENV vars and how to structure the project. But I just had to step back, get a beginner-focused book, and try again later.

After going through "Django for Beginners" by W.S. Vincent, having built Django projects at work and for friends, and being able to reference the official Django docs, I've started to re-read the book. It's like a completely different book. Now that I have my way of doing something do I understand the authors' suggestions for doing it better, correctly, or more efficiently.

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This is the best compendium of Django knowledge I've found. It's a vital reference for anyone who's not already a Django master, and probably still useful if you are.

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Absolutely the best book for Django when you want to level up. It's not for absolute beginners, but get it once you understand the basics or you'll miss the chance to avoid a lot of dead ends and bad ideas.

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A fantastic overview of everything Django. Buy this to go beyond the free tutorials in the official docs and elsewhere. It's worth every penny.

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Covers a lot of obvious and basic advice, but fails to deliver on advanced topics...
I am still waiting to find a single piece of help in this book since I've started to use Django.

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Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2017
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This is the essential book for any Django developer. Two Scoops does a fantastic job of making the complexity and scope of Django manageable. It's a thorough, thoughtful reference that is useful for developers of any skill level.

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Reviewed in Germany on January 16, 2018
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In Zeiten von StackOverflow & Co ist es sehr schwierig ein Buch zu finden das vieles Nützliches bietet. Dieses Buch ist meiner Meinung ein absolutes MUSS für diejenigen, die sich mit Django Framework befassen und wollen erst mit Django anzufassen. Man findet drin Best Practices, Patterns, Apps-Vorschläge und Implemetierung-Wege für fast alle Bereiche und Fragen.

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Reviewed in France on April 11, 2018
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J'avais la version précédente du livre, cette version s'enrichit de parties supplémentaires orientées mise en production avec les dernières techniques. Je m'y réfère souvent, c'est à la fois un aide-mémoire et un excellent guide d'apprentissage.

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Reviewed in Spain on August 17, 2017
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Totalmente necesario si quieres utilizar Django. No es un tutorial, sino una guía de buenas prácticas. A pesar de la versión explícita, aguanta bastante bien el paso del tiempo.

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