Odoo 14 Development Cookbook: Rapidly build, customize, and manage secure and efficient business apps using Odoo's latest features, 4th Edition

With over 200 recipes covering real-world examples, take your Odoo development skills to the next level and solve complex business problems using this guide

Key Features

• Learn to develop new modules and modify existing modules using the Odoo framework
• Explore key concepts of the Odoo framework to build robust business applications
• Create dynamic websites with snippets and learn to deploy an Odoo instance on the server or Odoo.sh

Book Description

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL).

Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You'll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security.

By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.

What you will learn

• Build beautiful websites with Odoo CMS using dynamic building blocks
• Get to grips with advanced concepts such as caching, prefetching, debugging
• Modify backend JavaScript components and POS applications with the new OWL framework
• Connect and access any object in Odoo via Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
• Manage, deploy, and test an Odoo instance with Odoo.sh
• Configure IoT Box to add and upgrade Point of Sale (POS) hardware
• Find out how to implement in-app purchase services

Who this book is for

This book is suitable for both newcomers and experienced Odoo developers who want to develop a highly efficient business application with the Odoo framework. Basic knowledge of Python and JavaScript is necessary to get the most out of the book.

Table of Contents

1. Installing the Odoo Development Environment
2. Managing Odoo Server Instances
3. Creating Odoo Add-On Modules
4. Application Models
5. Basic Server-Side Development
6. Managing Module Data
7. Debugging Modules
8. Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques
9. Backend Views
10. Security Access
11. Internationalization
12. Automation, Workflows, Emails, and Printing
13. Web Server Development
14. CMS Website Development
15. Web Client Development
16. The Odoo Web Library (OWL)
17. In-App Purchasing with Odoo
18. Automated Test Cases
19. Managing, Deploying, and Testing with Odoo.sh
20. Remote Procedure Calls In Odoo
21. Performance Optimization
22. Point of Sale
23. Managing Emails in Odoo
24. Managing IoT Box