Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Getting Started with Django 3.0

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Working with a virtual environment
• Creating a project file structure
• Handling project dependencies with pip
• Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments
• Defining relative paths in the settings
• Handling sensitive settings
• Including external dependencies in your project
• Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically
• Setting UTF-8 as the default encoding for the MySQL configuration
• Creating the Git ignore file
• Deleting Python-compiled files
• Respecting the import order in Python files
• Creating an app configuration
• Defining overwritable app settings
• Working with Docker containers for Django, Gunicorn, Nginx, and PostgreSQL