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title = "Web Development with Django Cookbook - Aidas Bendoraitis"
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date = 2016-07-10
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tags = ["books", "aidas bendoraitis", "reviews", "python", "django", "web development", "it"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23477190-web-development-with-django-cookbook):
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Over 70 practical recipes to create multilingual, responsive, and scalable
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websites with Django About This Book Improve your skills by developing models,
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forms, views, and templates Create a rich user experience using Ajax and other
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JavaScript techniques A practical guide to writing and using APIs to import or
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export data Who This Book Is For.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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First point: This book is terribly outdated. It focus on Django 1.6, which is
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at least 3 versions behind the current one (at the time of this review). 1.6
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is so old that you can't find its documentation on the Django Project page
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anymore.
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Second point: This book is terrible. I mean, one of the very first examples it
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talks about a mixin with creation date and modified date, which is pretty damn
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easy with Django, but instead of using "auto_now=True" and/or
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"auto_now_add=True", it overrides save() on the model. Now terrible enough?
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Later in the book, it creates a templatetag to access model directly, which
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completely obliterates the MVT (model-view-template) model of Django. Still
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not terrible enough? Again in the very first part of the book, to prevent
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browser caching issues, it gives a recipe for using the SVN revision in the
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static path; the wrong part of it is: a) it means you'll have to have SVN in
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your server instead of using proper setup.py to deliver your apps, b) it does
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a system() call, which is slow, c) there is a prop in SVN which allows you to
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use "$Id$" to automatically save the revision on commit (pretty much like CSV)
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and d) If you're having caching issues, that's a problem with your webserver,
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not Django.
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(I won't even talk about long chapters talking about MPTT with examples either
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don't show the tool properly or MPTT is so useless one could replace it with a
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single ForeignKey.)
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The whole book feels like someone searched for "django" on StackOverflow and
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dropped the first answers.
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In the end, the book is only good for giving you some ideas of what is
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available with Django, not how to properly develop a Django app.
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