Chapter 1, Django and Patterns, helps us understand Django better by telling us why it was created and how it has evolved over time. Then, it introduces design patterns, their importance, and several popular pattern collections.
Chapter 2, Application Design, guides us through the early stages of an application's life cycle, such as gathering requirements and creating mock-ups. We will also see how to break your project into modular apps through our running example—SuperBook.
Chapter 3, Models, gives us insights into how models can be graphically represented, structured using several kinds of patterns and can be later altered using migrations.
Chapter 4, Views and URLs, shows us how function-based views evolved into ...
