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Using Django

Introductions to all the key parts of Django you’ll need to know:

• How to install Django
  • Install Python
  • Install Apache and mod_wsgi
  • Get your database running
  • Install the Django code
• Models and databases
  • Models
  • Making queries
  • Fetch modes
  • Aggregation
  • Search
  • Managers
  • Performing raw SQL queries
  • Database transactions
  • Multiple databases
  • Tablespaces
  • Database access optimization
  • Database instrumentation
  • Fixtures
  • Examples of model relationship API usage
• Handling HTTP requests
  • URL dispatcher
  • Writing views
  • View decorators
  • File Uploads
  • Django shortcut functions
  • Generic views
  • Middleware
  • How to use sessions
• Working with forms
  • HTML forms
  • Django’s role in forms
  • Forms in Django
  • Building a form
  • More about Django Form classes
  • Working with form templates
  • Further topics
• Templates
  • The Django template language
  • Support for template engines
• Class-based views
  • Introduction to class-based views
  • Built-in class-based generic views
  • Form handling with class-based views
  • Using mixins with class-based views
  • Basic examples
  • Usage in your URLconf
  • Subclassing generic views
  • Asynchronous class-based views
• Migrations
  • The Commands
  • Backend Support
  • Workflow
  • Transactions
  • Dependencies
  • Migration files
  • Adding migrations to apps
  • Reversing migrations
  • Historical models
  • Considerations when removing model fields
  • Data Migrations
  • Squashing migrations
  • Serializing values
  • Supporting multiple Django versions
• Managing files
  • Using files in models
  • The File object
  • File storage
• Testing in Django
  • Writing and running tests
  • Testing tools
  • Advanced testing topics
• User authentication in Django
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Django’s cache framework
  • Setting up the cache
  • The per-site cache
  • The per-view cache
  • Template fragment caching
  • The low-level cache API
  • Asynchronous support
  • Downstream caches
  • Using Vary headers
  • Controlling cache: Using other headers
  • Order of MIDDLEWARE
• Conditional View Processing
  • The condition decorator
  • Shortcuts for only computing one value
  • Using the decorators with other HTTP methods
  • Comparison with middleware conditional processing
• Composite primary keys
  • Migrating to a composite primary key
  • Composite primary keys and relations
  • Composite primary keys and database functions
  • Composite primary keys in forms
  • Composite primary keys in model validation
  • Building composite primary key ready applications
• Cryptographic signing
  • Protecting SECRET_KEY and SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS
  • Using the low-level API
• Sending email
  • Quick examples
  • Configuring email
  • Sending messages
  • Email backends
  • Configuring email for development
• Internationalization and localization
  • Overview
  • Definitions
• Logging
  • Overview
  • Security implications
  • Configuring logging
• Pagination
  • The Paginator class
  • Example
  • Paginating a ListView
  • Using Paginator in a view function
• Security in Django
  • Always sanitize user input
  • Cross site scripting (XSS) protection
  • Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
  • SQL injection protection
  • Clickjacking protection
  • SSL/HTTPS
  • Host header validation
  • Referrer policy
  • Cross-origin opener policy
  • Session security
  • User-uploaded content
  • Form Submissions
  • Content Security Policy
  • Additional security topics
• Performance and optimization
  • Introduction
  • General approaches
  • Caching
  • Understanding laziness
  • Databases
  • HTTP performance
  • Template performance
  • Using different versions of available software
• Serializing Django objects
  • Serializing data
  • Deserializing data
  • Serialization formats
  • Natural keys
• Django settings
  • The basics
  • Designating the settings
  • Default settings
  • Using settings in Python code
  • Altering settings at runtime
  • Security
  • Available settings
  • Creating your own settings
  • Using settings without setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
• Signals
  • Listening to signals
  • Defining and sending signals
  • Disconnecting signals
• System check framework
  • Writing your own checks
• Asynchronous support
  • Async views
  • Async safety
  • Async adapter functions
• Django’s Tasks framework
  • Background Task fundamentals
  • Configuring a Task backend
  • Defining Tasks
  • Enqueueing Tasks
  • Task results

Last update:

Apr 17, 2026

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