Lightweight Django

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 new or existing projects.

Learn how to make the most of Django s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the lightweight applications you want. Once you finish this book, you ll know how to build single-page applications that respond to interactions in real time. If you re familiar with Python and JavaScript, you re good to go.Learn a lightweight approach for starting a new Django projectBreak reusable applications into smaller services that communicate with one anotherCreate a static, rapid prototyping site as a scaffold for websites and applicationsBuild a REST API with "django-rest-framework"Learn how to use Django with the Backbone.js MVC frameworkCreate a single-page web application on top of your REST APIIntegrate real-time features with WebSockets and the Tornado networking libraryUse the book s code-driven examples in your own projects"