Full Stack Django and React
Get hands-on experience in full-stack web development with Python, React, and AWS
Kolawole Mangabo
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Full Stack Django and React
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Contributors
About the author
Kolawole Mangabo is a software engineer, currently working as a frontend engineer, while regularly using React and Django to build web applications and backends of tech products in various industries, such as foodtech, fintech, and telecom. His goal in a team is to always build products that provide pixel-perfect, performant experiences while adjusting to business and user needs. When he is not coding, he spends most of his time writing and publishing articles on various websites on topics such as software architecture, testing, full stack development, and developer experience.
About the reviewers
Eleke Great (BEng) is a senior software developer with hands-on Django REST framework and ReactJS experience, creating microservices and dynamic UI for high-profile organizations and start-up companies in the US and throughout South America. He has been a Packt Publishing technical reviewer on another of their book projects, FastAPI React and MongoDB (FARM Stack). His other expertise is Next.js, Selenium, Google Cloud Platform, CI/CD, MongoDB, PostgreSQL databases, system design, and database architecture. He is also a full stack blockchain developer with hands-on experience in Web3 with Solidity, Web4, and Web5 with Rust on Solana.
This book is a complete zero-to-hero guide to the DRP stack. The author dedicated time to breaking down Django REST framework and ReactJS and creating production-level, maintainable web applications so that someone from a non-programming background can understand it all and get up and running.
Okere Chinedu is a full stack software engineer from Nigeria, with 4 years of experience. He has worked for big tech companies as well as start-ups, located in the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. He has worked on multiple applications and written many tech articles. He has extensive knowledge of working with JavaScript, React, Node.js, and Python. When he isn’t writing code, he is either reading articles, writing one, sharing memes, or playing Call of Duty.