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Advanced Django: Mastering Django and Django Rest Framework Specialization
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Advanced Django: Mastering Django and Django Rest Framework Specialization

Mastering Django and the Django Rest Framework. Create a blog and an accompanying API using industry-standard tools and software packages without installing anything!

Patrick Ester
Ben Shaw

Instructors: Patrick Ester

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.6

(145 reviews)

Advanced level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Create a blog with Django

  • Build an API for the blog with the Django Rest Framework

  • Schedule asynchronous tasks with Celery

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

  • Create custom filters and templates

  • Optimize performance through caching and optimizing database operations

  • Authenticate users with Google

Skills you'll gain

Category: Django (Web Framework)
Category: Responsive Web Design
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Application Security
Category: Bootstrap (Front-End Framework)
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Cloud Hosting
Category: Configuration Management
Category: Scalability
Category: Development Environment
Category: Web Development Tools
Category: PostgreSQL
Category: Database Development
Category: UI Components
Category: Python Programming
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Object-Relational Mapping
Category: User Accounts

What you'll learn

  • Build an API with Django Rest Framework

  • Use Postman to explore the API

  • Add functionality with serializers, viewsets, routers, authentication, and permissions

Skills you'll gain

Category: Restful API
Category: Django (Web Framework)
Category: Authentications
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Web Applications
Category: Python Programming
Category: JSON
Category: Development Environment
Category: Postman API Platform

What you'll learn

  • Optimize the Django Rest Framework

  • Writing tests for the API

  • Integrate with ReactJS

Skills you'll gain

Category: React.js
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Django (Web Framework)
Category: Javascript
Category: Restful API
Category: Development Testing
Category: JSON
Category: Software Testing
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Python Programming
Category: Object-Relational Mapping
Category: Authentications

What you'll learn

  • Use external APIs

  • Schedule tasks with Celery and Redis

  • Combine the skills from all four courses to build a portfolio-ready project

Skills you'll gain

Category: Django (Web Framework)
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Restful API
Category: Development Environment
Category: GitHub
Category: Middleware
Category: Python Programming
Category: Business Logic

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