Developer Guide

• Getting started
  • Installing a Lino developer environment
  • Your first local Lino project
  • Demo projects included with the Lino Book
  • A Local Exchange Trade System
• Diving into Lino
  • The vital basics
  • More basics
  • Customizing things
  • Widgets
  • More practical
• Writing your own Lino application
• Getting acquaintained
  • Internationalization
  • Data migrations à la Lino
  • About Python dumps
  • The languages of a Lino site
  • Introduction to actors
  • Introduction to actor parameters
  • Using action requests
  • Customizing your querysets
  • Generating HTML
  • Writing custom actions
  • Introduction to action parameters
  • GenericForeignKey fields
  • Remote fields
  • Some more layout examples
  • Customize delete behaviour
  • Multilingual database content
  • Plugin inheritance
  • Plugin cooperation
  • Developer intro to printing
  • About cached temporary data
  • Introduction to Front end Renderers
  • Multi-table inheritance
  • Online registration
  • The SiteConfig object
  • Bleaching
  • Stories
  • ElementTree
  • The inject_field() function
  • Multi-table inheritance (MTI)
  • Is MTI a bad thing?
  • Watching database changes
  • Dynamic tables (Matrixes)
  • Fields with an input mask
  • Overriding virtual fields
  • The Qt front end
  • Local customizations to the user permissions
  • lookup_or_create and the auto_create signal
• Testing Lino applications
  • Django tests in demo projects
  • Doctests in Lino
  • Migration tests
  • Cypress
  • Travis CI
• Lino internals
  • More about the Site class
  • When a Lino application starts up
  • Signals overview
  • To instantiate or not to instantiate?
  • Introduction to config directories