README_EN.md

FAQ by telegram-chat @pydjango 🇬🇧

Russian version

In this repository you can find useful information collected by chat users.

Where to start

• Official documentation 🇬🇧
• Documentation, translated to russian 🇷🇺

Books

• Two Scoops of Django - must-read book with Django best practices 🇬🇧
• Tango With Django 🇬🇧
• Building Django 2.0 Web Applications 🇬🇧

Articles

• Tutorial by Django Girls 🇬🇧 🇷🇺
• Tutorial by Mozilla 🇬🇧
• How to set up Django with Postgres, nginx and gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 🇬🇧
• How to serve Django applications with uwsgi and nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 🇬🇧

Code style and linting

• PEP8 🇬🇧
• Official Django coding style 🇬🇧
• Github repository with good Python+Django style guide 🇬🇧

Testing

• Official Django Testing documentation 🇬🇧
• Mozilla docs about Django testing 🇬🇧
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! 🇬🇧

Useful resourses

• djangopackages.org 🇬🇧
• Awesome Django 🇬🇧
• Django Class-Based Views 🇬🇧
• Django REST Framework cheatsheet 🇬🇧
• Classy Django Forms 🇬🇧
• Django must-watch videos 🇬🇧
• Django-hub on Habrahabr 🇷🇺
• Django tag on Python Digest RU 🇷🇺
• Newbie mistakes 🇬🇧

Video

• Web-development basics - Beginner level course by Mail.RU Group. Covers basics of web-development including Django Framework. 🇷🇺
• Writing blog with Django 2.2 by CodingEntrepreneurs 🇬🇧
• Writing blog with Django 1.9 by CodingEntrepreneurs (playlist) 🇬🇧
• Course for creating url shortener with Django 1.10 by CodingEntrepreneurs (playlist) 🇬🇧
• Writing web-application with Django 1.11 by CodingEntrepreneurs 🇬🇧
• Deployment Django application on Heroku platform by CodingEntrepreneurs 🇬🇧
• Django Channels - introductory material 🇷🇺
• MVC and its use in Django - The video explains the MVC pattern and offers a convenient way to use it in Django to separate business logic from the presentation of data (models). 🇷🇺

Online-courses

• Web-technologies - Writing server-side web applications with Django, including learning architecture and HTTP-stack. 🇷🇺

Interviews

• Useful links (Django, Python) 🇬🇧
• Questions compilation by Toptal 🇬🇧

Job

• Telegram-chat, for job offers and CV's related to Python/Django 🇷🇺

Slides

• Slides about Django from Web-technologies course 🇷🇺

Open source Django projects

• Python.org
• Taiga
• Django Project
• Django Girls
• Sentry
• JazzBand
• Mezzanine CMS
• Health checks
• Treeherder Mozilla
• Bedrock Mozilla
• Pontoon Mozilla
• Kuma MDN Mozilla
• Mozillians - Mozilla contributors
• Addons Mozilla
• Review board
• Django Packages
• Edx platform
• PyCon
• Pinax
• ADFS_Managers
• Cadasta platform
• Zulip server - group chat

Chat rules and recommendations

• Please, don't write tons of one line messages. Think about your topic/question and then make one-two detailed messages

• Try not to go off topic

• We don't like code screenshots and code snippets in attachments

• Telegram allows us to format code snippets:

      `print('Django FTW')`

      ```
      def main():
          return 'Hello @pydjango!'
      ```

• In case of long snippets, please use special services:

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