Appendix J. Source Code Examples

All of the code examples I’ve used in the book are available in my repo on GitHub. So, if you ever want to compare your code against mine, you can take a look at it there.

Each chapter has its own branch named after it, like so:

Chapter 1: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_01

Be aware that each branch contains all of the commits for that chapter, so its state represents the code at the end of the chapter.

Full List of Links for Each Chapter

Chapter 1: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_01
Chapter 2: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_02_unittest
Chapter 3: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_unit_test_first_view
Chapter 4: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_philosophy_and_refactoring
Chapter 5: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_post_and_database
Chapter 6: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_explicit_waits_1
Chapter 7: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_working_incrementally
Chapter 8: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_prettification
Chapter 9: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_manual_deployment
Chapter 10: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_making_deployment_production_ready
Chapter 11: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_automate_deployment_with_fabric
Chapter 12: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_organising_test_files
Chapter 13: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_database_layer_validation
Chapter 14: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_simple_form
Chapter 15: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_advanced_forms
Chapter 16: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_javascript
Chapter 17: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_deploying_validation
Chapter 18: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_spiking_custom_auth
Chapter 19: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_mocking
Chapter 20: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_fixtures_and_wait_decorator
Chapter 21: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_server_side_debugging
Chapter 22: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_outside_in
Chapter 23: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_purist_unit_tests
Chapter 24: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_CI
Chapter 25: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/chapter_page_pattern
Appendix B: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/appendix_Django_Class-Based_Views
Appendix E: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/appendix_bdd
Appendix F: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/appendix_rest_api
Appendix G: https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/tree/appendix_DjangoRestFramework

Using Git to Check Your Progress

If you feel like developing your Git-Fu a little further, you can add my repo as a remote:

git remote add harry https://github.com/hjwp/book-example.git
git fetch harry

And then, to check your difference from the end of Chapter 4:

git diff harry/chapter_philosophy_and_refactoring

Git can handle multiple remotes, so you can still do this even if you’re already pushing your code up to GitHub or Bitbucket.

Be aware that the precise order of, say, methods in a class may differ between your version and mine. It may make diffs hard to read.

Downloading a ZIP File for a Chapter

If, for whatever reason, you want to “start from scratch” for a chapter, or skip ahead,¹ and/or you’re just not comfortable with Git, you can download a version of my code as a ZIP file, from URLs following this pattern:

https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/archive/chapter_01.zip

https://github.com/hjwp/book-example/archive/chapter_philosophy_and_refactoring.zip

Don’t Let it Become a Crutch!

Try not to sneak a peek at the answers unless you’re really, really stuck. Like I said at the beginning of the last chapter, there’s a lot of value in debugging errors all by yourself, and in real life, there’s no “harrys repo” to check against and find all the answers.

¹ I don’t recommend skipping ahead. I haven’t designed the chapters to stand on their own; each relies on the previous ones, so it may be more confusing than anything else…