The aim of this book is to provide you with a practical guide to web development using Django. The book is designed primarily for students, providing a walkthrough of the steps involved in getting your first web applications up and running, as well as deploying them to a web server.

This book seeks to complement the official Django Tutorials and many of the other excellent tutorials available online. By putting everything together in one place, this book fills in many of the gaps in the official Django documentation providing an example-based design driven approach to learning the Django framework. Furthermore, this book provides an introduction to many of the aspects required to master web application development.

I quite often get asked for resources on where to learn Django. Here’s a list of the places I know!

Pygmy: Open-source, extensible & easy-to-use URL shortener

Pygmy is a feature-rich, easy-to-use, extensible and easy to deploy and host url shortener. It's created keeping in mind that it should be easy to deploy and extend.

Major Features:

• Custom URL
• Auto expiry URL
• Secret key protected URL
• User Login/Sign up
• User dashboard
• Link Analytics (add + to the tiny URL to get link stats)

This is one of the most powerful, feature-rich open-source URL shortener available. The architecture is very loosely coupled which allows custom integrations very easily.

The project has 3 major parts:

• The core program for URL shortening
• REST API on top. Uses Flask framework.
• The UI layer for rendering the UI. It uses Django framework.

Each part is independent of other part and it can function independently. The project is created keeping in mind that each of the parts can be used separately without any dependency on other part.

Live version of this project @ https://pygy.co
Check link stats by adding + to the URL. Example pygy.co/pygmy+

This is a book about doing things with Django admin. It takes the form of about forty questions and common tasks with Django admin we answer.