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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

Using the Browsable API

The Browsable API is a built-in tool that allows for easy browsing and testing of your API. It allows us to read and view data in JSON and API format. This section will teach us how to use and access this tool. When we added the chapter-8 path to the URL routers in the previous section, we activated that path as what is called the API root, which provides all of the URLs available in your API, with some exceptions. Visit http://localhost:8000/chapter-8/ to see these URLs, as depicted here:

Figure 8.2 – The Browsable API – API root

When building custom API endpoints, as we will do later in this chapter, you will likely not see them displayed in your API root. You’ll see that the serializers for the groups, permissions, and content types have all been included with the code of this book. There is a dropdown at the top right of every main router path that we created, to switch between the two formats, API and JSON,...