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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Code in Action
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Conventions used
Get in touch
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Part 1 – Starting a Project
Part 1 – Starting a Project
Free Chapter
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Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project
Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project
Technical requirements
Building an enterprise
Designing and planning
Hosting and deployment
Summary
3
Chapter 2: Project Configuration
Chapter 2: Project Configuration
Technical requirements
Choosing development tools
Starting a project
Creating a virtual environment
Project configuration
Using basic database settings
Preparing PostgreSQL for Heroku
Summary
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Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance
Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Writing model classes
Working with model field relationships
Using the Meta subclass
Customizing models
Extending models
Using the Django shell
Performing queries
Writing model managers
Summary
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Part 2 – Django Components
Part 2 – Django Components
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Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates
Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Configuring URL patterns
Mapping URL patterns
Resolving URLs
Resolving absolute URLs
Working with complex views
Working with templates
Summary
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Chapter 5: Django Forms
Chapter 5: Django Forms
Technical requirements
Types of forms
Using form fields
Cleaning forms
Creating custom form fields
Working with form views
Rendering forms in templates
Linking a model to a form
Adding inline formsets
Summary
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Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site
Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site
Technical requirements
Using the Django admin site
Configuring admin class options
Adding admin class methods
Writing custom admin form classes
Using the Django authentication system
Summary
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Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports
Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Using the Django messages framework
Configuring email notifications
Writing custom email templates
Generating PDF reports
Summary
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Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
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Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework
Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Serializing objects
Using the Browsable API
Building SPA-like pages
Writing custom API endpoints
Authenticating with tokens
Summary
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Chapter 9: Django Testing
Chapter 9: Django Testing
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Understanding automated testing in Django
Getting started with unit testing
Testing HTTP view requests
Testing authenticated view requests
Testing Django REST API endpoints
Using the DjDT
Summary
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Chapter 10: Database Management
Chapter 10: Database Management
Technical requirements
Preparing for this chapter
Exporting data into a data fixture
Importing data from a data fixture
Using the select_related() method
Using the prefetch_related() method
Using the Prefetch() class
Summary
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Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project

Considering the increasing complexity of applications and websites these days, this chapter will introduce you to what it takes to tackle a colossal project of your own. We will explore the concepts of enterprise-level development, and then take a peek at the many different paths we could take. We will discuss methods and tools that help us to draft plans for a project, essentially building the blueprints that we will need to get started. Every project also needs hardware for its software to live on, so we will be exploring what service options are available to provide the hardware we need. Of the options provided, we will settle upon one choice for a hosting provider and demonstrate working with that provider throughout this book.

The project itself can be used with any hosting provider or even run on a self-built server; however, keep in mind that certain settings may be configured specifically for the host that we will be using. By the end of this chapter, we will have created a hosting account with the provider chosen and picked the simplest, free plan for use with this book. We will also be creating and configuring multiple working environments on that hosting plan for the code to run in. We will also connect each environment in that hosting plan to a remote repository, keeping the code in a safe place.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Building an enterprise
  • Designing and planning
  • Hosting and deployment

Most people would suggest using a UNIX- or Linux-based operating system, such as Ubuntu or macOS, when working with Django. Django is built to be so versatile that the concepts and code examples that will be demonstrated throughout the course of this book can run on all three major platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and beyond. Personally, I have been using Django on a Windows-based machine ever since I started to learn and work directly with this framework. I did so because I came from a Windows background; about half of my jobs provided the equipment or mandated the use of certain software on a Windows-based machine. Later on, more and more companies started to give developers the choice to work on whatever machine they were most comfortable with. I continued to choose Windows because I was already familiar with it.

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