We have put thousands of hours into the third 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 REST APIs
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 3

What is everyone saying about Two Scoops of Django?

I read the first edition cover to cover. The second one raises the bar again. It's pedagogical, entertaining, and thoughtful. -- Aymeric Augustin, Django core developer.
A single read-through of Two Scoops of Django gave me so many lightbulbs and tips; I had to go back for a second helping. -- Lynn Root, Spotify engineer, PSF Director, and PyLadies ambassador.
Make sure you have your favorite project next to you while reading. You'll be doing some rewriting. -- Bryan Veloso, GitHubber, PyCon PH Keynote Speaker
You know those lessons you learn when projects blow up in your face? This book contains several projects worth of such lessons. -- Lennart Regebro, author of "Porting to Python 3"
This is the book I wished had existed and I could have read when I started to really build Django projects. -- Barry Morrison, Linux systems engineer and Django developer

About the Author

Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld are best known for their open-source community leadership work on the following projects:

DjangoPackages.com, the Django package index and comparison site.
Cookiecutter, a Python package for generating projects from project templates.
Cookiecutter-PyPackage, a project template for creating advanced python projects.
Cookiecutter-Django, a project template for creating advanced Django projects.
PyLadies, a women's outreach/mentorship group. Nurturing the group was basically a 2nd fulltime job for them in 2011, and they continue to run monthly Inland Empire PyLadies events.
Barcamp Django SF, the first Django unconference.
The first ever PyCon Philippines, a 300-person conference about the Python programming language held in the Philippines.
The LA Open Source Hackathon event series, which brings together open-source developers from different programming backgrounds.

They do Python and Django development and run a small Python/Django consulting shop called Cartwheel Web. They've spoken at dozens of conferences and have given keynote speeches at DjangoCon Europe, EuroPython, PyCon Poland, PyCon Philippines, PyCon Australia, PyCon New Zealand, Python Brasil, and PyCon Argentina.

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