Elman Julia - Lightweight Django

Creating lightweight and simple web applications is the core concept in this book. In this chapter, youll be building a runnable, single-file Hello World Django application.Ever wonder how placeholder image services are created? walks you through how to build a stateless web application to generate placeholder image URLs.Rapid prototyping is a useful technique for creating and scaffolding web applications. Well review the purposes of this technique by creating a static site generator to help scaffold your teams project.REST APIs are an important part of creating web applications with rich and relevant content. This is the chapter in which we start building out a large-scale Scrum board application by using the django-rest-framework. by walking you through creating a Backbone.js application that works with our newlymade RESTful API. Well touch on each component that creates a new Backbone application and how to sync up thisclient-side framework with Django.Single-page web applications are a way in which we can create enriching client-side web applications. In this chapter well return to our simple Backbone application and continue our progress by making it a robust single-pageapplication.Creating web applications that respond to interactions in real time provides instant gratification for our users. To complete our project from the previous two chapters, well add a real-time component to our Scrum board using websockets and Tornado, an asynchronous networking library written in Python.Connecting the power of Django to the robust behaviors of Tornado is an important measure in creating scalable, real-time Django applications. In this chapter, well expand on our usage of the Tornado server by integratingthe ability to work with Django to create a secure and interactive relationship.

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