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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

Authenticating with tokens

In this exercise, we will be treating the API that we built earlier in this chapter as if it is now an API provided by a third party. Pretend for a moment that you did not build your API and we will practice authenticating by using a security token. Token security will be used in addition to the individual model permissions as we did in the previous exercise. This will be done whether you grant a user access to the Django admin site or not. That also means we will create a new user/seller for this exercise and then restrict that user’s access to the Django admin site for demonstration purposes.

We will follow the same steps as the previous two exercises next.

Project configuration

This exercise requires a little bit of configuration inside the project’s settings.py file before we can get started with the same steps as before.

Follow these steps to configure your project:

  1. In your settings.py file, add the following app to...