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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

Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework

This chapter will focus on working with an Application Programming Interface (API). An API is actually a set of tools and communication protocols working to allow two different applications to communicate with each other effectively; it is what acts as the middleman between two systems. A REST API adopts the design principles set forth in a Representational State Transfer (REST) software architecture and is most commonly used with web-based applications. Every time we mention the word API in this chapter, we are really referring to a REST API as they are technically slightly different but usually interpreted as the same thing.

Django itself relies on third-party packages to work with an existing API or to create an API yourself. A common Python package that is available is called the requests package. The requests package is used to send and receive requests to and from an existing API found on the server side. More information...