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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

Technical requirements

To work with the code in this chapter, the following tools will need to be installed on your local machine:

  • Python version 3.9 – used as the underlying programming language for the project
  • Django version 4.0 – used as the backend framework of the project
  • pip package manager – used to manage third-party Python/Django packages

Next, you will need a way to edit the code that we will be writing in this chapter and throughout the rest of this book. The first section of this chapter will provide you with several development tool choices from text editors to IDEs. The same IDE will be used to demonstrate a few actions but it is not necessary to use the same tool. You are welcome to use any IDE you like or use no IDE at all, using the terminal or command-line window instead. A database will also be required, and the third section of this chapter will provide several options to choose from. Any database type will work with...