Deploying our Django app involved a lot of different commands, right? It would suck to have to do all that over again, wouldn't it?

Having to manually type all those commands again would be tedious, slow and easy to screw up. Even worse, the harder it is to deploy, the …

So we've got a problem. Our Django app only runs when we're logged into the server via SSH and running Gunicorn. That's not going to work long term. We need to get Gunicorn running even when we're not around. In addition, if our Gunicorn server crashes because of some bug …

We've got our server set up, and our Django code is ready. Now we can actually deploy Django to our server. The goal of this section is to get a basic deployment done. We'll do some automation and introduce some extra tools later.

In this section we'll cover:

• Windows line …

We've got our server set up and ready to host our Django app, now let's focus on preparing our app for deployment. The goal of this section is to set up and test as much of the stuff that we'll be using in production. That way, we can debug issues …

In order to deploy our Django app, we need a somewhere to run it: we need a server. In this section we'll be setting up our server in "the cloud". Doing this can be fiddly and annoying, especially if you're new, so we want to get it right first before …

You're learning web development with Django. You've followed the official introductory tutorial and you can get a Django app working on your local computer. Now you want to put your web app onto the internet. Maybe it's to show your friends, or you actually want to use it for something …

At some point you realise that formatting your Python code is important. You want your code to be readable, but what's the right way to format it? You recognise that it's much harder to read this:

some_things = {"carrots": [1,2 ],
"apples":[
3,3, 3
], "pears": [] }

than it is to read …

When you're setting up a new website, there's a bunch of little tasks that you have to do that suck. They're important, but they don't give you the joy of creating something new, they're just... plumbing.

In particular I'm thinking of:

• setting up your domain name with DNS records
• encrypting …

Everyone who learns programming at some point stops and asks - how does this actually work? You might know how to write and run code, but what's actually happening inside the computer? It can seem unfathomable.

Some people don't care about what's happening under the hood. Their code works, it gets …

You are learning how to build a website and you want to give it a domain name like mycoolwebsite.com. It doesn't seem like a real website without a domain name, does it? How is anybody going to find your website without one? Setting up your domain is an important …