Lightweight Django

By Julia Elman, Mark Lavin,

Book cover of Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

Book description

How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Lightweight Django as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a very well-written book that covers some less covered areas like how to write the most minimal Django application or integrating with Tornado server. The book is short and quite engaging. This is not exactly a book for an impatient beginner as it takes time to build the concepts. Also, the book might be a bit dated since it was last updated in 2014.

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