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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

Writing custom API endpoints

Creating our own API endpoints is just as easy as writing another URL pattern. This section will teach us how to write our own API endpoints and practice sending preformatted HTML back to the client. You do not need to create all custom API endpoints to return preformatted HTML but we will practice doing that. Preformatting HTML only works well if the app communicating with your API does not need to restructure or restyle the HTML in any way after it has been received. This means the server/developer needs to know exactly how the client will use the data that it receives. No more JavaScript will be needed other than what was already written in the $gotoSPA_Page() function of the previous exercise. We will reuse that same function and just alter one or two things before we move forward. We will create a new view class and add permission logic to secure that endpoint from unwanted users accessing the API.

Let’s begin working on this exercise in...