Django Roadmap:

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Part 1 (Development Basics):

• Python virtual environment (pipenv, virtualenv, pyenv, poetry, uv (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv))

• Effective Python Book

• VCS (Version Control System): Git and Github (commits, branches, merges, conflicts, stashing, pull requests)

• IDE/Text Editor: Pycharm Pro or VS Code (shortcuts, formatting, integrations, plugins)

• Networks Basics: IPs, Ports, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, Webservers, NATs, SSH, ...etc

• Linux

• Using The Terminal/CMD/PowerShell

Part 2 (Databases)

• RDB (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite)
• NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)
• ORM (Object-Relational Mapper)

Part 3 (Software Engineering)

• Conventional Commits
• Trunk-based Development (https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/continuous-integration/trunk-based-development)
• Change Logs
• README
• Documentation
• Clean Code
• Design Principles (SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, ...etc)
• Design Patterns
• Testing (Unit, Integration, Functional)
• Pytest
• TDD (Test-Driven Development)
• BDD (Behavior-Driven Development)
• DDD (Domain-Driven Design)
• Issue Tracking (GitHub issues, JIRA, Redmine) Learn how to mention issue number in commit message
• Continues Integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis-CI)
• pre-commit hooks (black, flake)
• .env files and environmental variables
• Logs, and Logging (For Example Sentry)

Part 4 (Web)

• HTML, CSS, SASS, Javascript, Bootstrap and JQuery
• REST API
• Swagger
• ngrok
• GraphQL
• Browser dev tools (elements tab, console, network tab, performance)

Part 5 (Theory and Tools):

• Security (XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, CORS, ...etc)
• Symmetric Encryption and Asymmetric Encryption
• SSH (Connecting, Generating Keys, Adding Hosts, ...etc)
• Authentication (session, basic, token and jwt token)
• Docker, docker-compose
• Postman
• Authentication vs Authorization

Part 6 (Django)

• Good Resources:

  • Two-Scoops with Django
  • Code With Mosh - Ultimate Django Series
  • Documentation

• Django App Architecture and Organization

• Important Packages

  • django-split-settings (https://sobolevn.me/2017/04/managing-djangos-settings)
  • django-allauth (social auth)
  • django-rest-auth (for drf)
  • django-braces (mixins)
  • django-compressor (for static files)
  • django-countries (country fields)
  • django-crispy-forms (render forms)
  • django-db-mailer
  • django-el-pagination
  • django-extensions (shell_plus, jobs, ...etc)
  • drf-extra-fields (Base64Fields)
  • django-filters
  • django-fsm (state machine)
  • django-jet (admin styles and template)
  • django-modeltranslation
  • django-newsletter
  • django-phonenumber-field
  • django-push-notifications
  • django-solo
  • django-treebeard
  • PyJWT
  • django-redis
  • django-wkhtmltopdf
  • django-import-export
  • sentry-sdk
  • django-ckeditor
  • geopy (locating)
  • django-rest-knox (auth)
  • drf-spectacular (swagger)
  • easy-thumbnails
  • django-oscar
  • django-oscar-api
  • django-oscar-invoices
  • django-debug-toolbar
  • pytest-django
  • pytest-cov

• custom management commands

• custom migrations

• permissions

• Django cookie-cutter

• Django Rest Framework

• Wagtail

• Django cms

Part 7 (Advanced Concepts & Devops & Production):

• Elastic Stack
• Caching with redis
• Asynchronous programming (celery, rabbit mq, django rq, Kafka)
• Linux cron jobs
• AWS Basics (S3, EC2, Networks)
• Gunicorn
• Nginx
• Microservices
• Hosting (PAAS, SAAS, IAAS)
• System Design (a good book is System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide)

Part 8 (Front-End Optional Miscellaneous)

• NPM
• Webpack
• SPA (Vue and Nuxt.js/React and Next.js/Angular)
• PWA
• TypeScript
• ...etc