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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

Choosing development tools

Configuring our project refers to how we will structure and arrange the files that make up an application. This also refers to how we share those files within a collaborative team. Some tools create files that can be shared among your team members, such as preconfigured settings related to development and debugging features. These files are sometimes referred to as configuration or solution files. This means you can preconfigure a set of development tools to help get your team up to speed quickly. Making sure that all members use similar tools makes debugging and looking at code that is not written by you much easier. This consistency also makes verbal and written communication among members of your team more efficient when synchronizing workflows.

While there are benefits to sharing project configuration files, it is also not necessary for everyone on your team to be using the same tools. In fact, it's even possible to create many different configuration...