Aidas Bendoraitis - Django 3 Web Development Cookbook

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Aidas Bendoraitis has been professionally building websites for the past 18 years. For the last 14 years, he has been working at a design company, studio 38 pure communication, in Berlin. Together with a small dedicated team, he has mostly used Django in the backend and jQuery in the frontend to create cultural and touristic web platforms.

Among different side projects, he is bootstrapping a SaaS business with strategic prioritizer 1st things 1st.

Aidas Bendoraitis is active on Twitter and other social media under the username DjangoTricks.

Jake Kronika, a software engineer with 25 years of experience. He has been working with Python since 2005 and Django since 2007. Evolving in lockstep with the web development industry, his skill set encompasses HTML, CSS, full-stack JavaScript, Python, Django , React, Node.js , Ruby on Rails, and several other technologies.

Currently a software architect and development team lead, Jake collaborates with designers, business stakeholders, and engineers around the globe to build robust applications. In his spare time, he provides full-spectrum web services as a freelancer.

In addition to authoring this book, Jake has reviewed several other Packt titles most recently, Django 3 By Example, Third Edition by Antonio Mel.

Darian Schramm has over 14 years of experience working on the web with Python. Starting as a systems administrator in the university CS department and continuing his work at agencies in New York City, San Diego, CA, and beyond. Darian has used Python and other technologies as a tool for web development, system administration tasks, statistics gathering, and everything in between. His career path began with Zope, then on to Plone, and then eventually, Flask, Django, and Pyramid.

Scott Sharkey is President of LANshark Consulting Group, LLC. in Troy, Ohio. He has a master's degree in computer science from Ohio State University and has been working in the industry since 1984, having founded LANshark in 1990. He specializes in remote work using Django/Python for web application development. During his long career, he has worked on projects as diverse as an in-car data collection system for IndyCar, TurboTax Pro for Intuit, two dating sites, an Internet of Things data collection application, several medical applications, and many other systems, along w ith publishing over 30 software packages through LANshark.

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The Django framework was specifically engineered to help developers construct robust, powerful web applications quickly and efficiently. It takes much of the tedious work and repetition out of the process, solving questions such as project structure, database object-relational mapping, templating, form validation, sessions, authentication, security, cookie management, internationalization, basic administration, and an interface to access data from scripts. Django is built upon the Python programming language, which itself enforces clear and easy-to-read code. Besides the core framework, Django has been designed to enable developers to create third-party modules that can be used in conjunction with your own apps. Django has an established and vibrant community where you can find source code, get help, and contribute.