Beginning Django API with React: Build Django 4 Web APIs with React Full Stack Applications

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning Django API React stack development. You'll start building your first Django API React stack app within minutes. Every chapter is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as we don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly ours) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have the skills to create a Todo app and deploy it to the Internet.

In the course of this book, we will cover:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Installing Python and Django
Chapter 3: Understanding the Project Structure
Chapter 4: Creating Our Backend Server
Chapter 5: Serialization
Chapter 6: URLs and Class-based Views
Chapter 7: Creating Todos via the ListCreateAPIView
Chapter 8: Permissions
Chapter 9: Other C.R.U.D. Operations
Chapter 10: Completing a Todo
Chapter 11: Authentication – Sign Up
Chapter 12: Authentication – Log In Tokens
Chapter 13: Introduction to React
Chapter 14: Create Navigation Header Bar
Chapter 15: Defining Our Routes
Chapter 16: TodoDataService - Connecting to the Backend
Chapter 17: TodoDataService - Login Component
Chapter 18: TodosList Component
Chapter 19: Adding and Editing Todos
Chapter 20: Deleting a Todo
Chapter 21: Completing a Todo
Chapter 22: Deployment
Chapter 23: Hosting and Deploying our React Frontend

The goal of this book is to teach you Django API React stack development in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.

Working Through This Book

This book is purposely broken down into short chapters where the development process of each chapter will center on different essential topics. The book takes a practical hands on approach to learning through practice. You learn best when you code along with the examples in the book.

Requirements

No previous knowledge on Django or React development is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my Beginning Django and React book first which will provide you will better insight and deeper knowledge into the various technologies. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.

Contact Greg at twitter.com/greglim81