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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 DjDT

The DjDT is a third-party package that integrates a set of configurable panels that display debug information in real time to the developer. Other third-party packages can be installed to add additional panels to this toolbar. With that in mind, you could also build your own panels too. We will only be installing the DjDT package by itself and then explaining each of its most common features, guiding you through using it, interpreting what it is showing you. To learn more about all of its capabilities, visit https://pypi.org/project/django-debug-toolbar/ and https://django-debug-toolbar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Installing the DjDT

To get started with installing the DjDT, follow these steps:

  1. Add the django-debug-toolbar package to your requirements.txt file and install it into your virtual environment via that file or run the following pip command, making sure your virtual environment is already active:
    PS C:\Projects\Packt\Repo\becoming_a_django_entdev...