Preface

Django is one of the most popular web frameworks in use today. It powers large websites, such as Pinterest, Instagram, Disqus, and NASA. With a few lines of code, you can rapidly build a functional and secure website that can scale to millions of users.

This book attempts to share solutions to several common design problems faced by Django developers. Sometimes, there are several solutions but we often wonder whether there is a recommended approach. Experienced developers frequently use certain idioms while deliberately avoiding certain others.

This book is a collection of such patterns and insights. It is organized into chapters each covering a key area of the framework, such as Models, or an aspect of web development, such as Debugging. ...

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