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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Part 1 – Starting a Project

In this part, you will begin by learning what enterprise development is, understanding the requirements gathering process, and creating a free hosting plan with Heroku. You will create a local, development, staging, and production environment for the code to live and run in. You will then create a Django project and push that code to those environments.

We will discuss configuring the project files and settings to work with a Heroku-hosted app. We will also create and configure a database to work with the project we are building. Then, we will build models that relate to the tables within that database. Heroku is not necessary for the rest of the book. The majority of this book can run locally on your machine.

This part comprises the following chapters: