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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

Building SPA-like pages

Single-Page App (SPA) pages are web pages where content gets updated within containers/nodes rather than reloading or redirecting the page to display that data. Usually, some of the work of the server is offloaded to the client’s browser to perform these requests and/or render the HTML, usually with JavaScript or jQuery. When an event is triggered, such as the clicking of a button or submission of a form, JavaScript is used to obtain the data from the server and then render that content onto the page, wherever we want it to display.

In this exercise, we will use the API endpoint of the Seller created by the router, at http://localhost:8000/chapter-8/sellers/1/, to render JSON as a string within a container found in the body of a query page. The query page is just a standard page that uses JavaScript to communicate with an API endpoint.

Creating the view

In this subsection, we will build the view to handle a page where the user can enter a number...