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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

Starting a project

There are two ways to start a project and this chapter will allow you to choose which method you want to follow. We encourage you to use the IDE as becoming proficient with using this tool in your team will be beneficial in the long run. However, if your team is using an IDE other than Visual Studio or you are only using a text editor to work with your code, the command-line equivalent of performing each step is also provided to allow anyone to work through this chapter. All other chapters in this book will focus on code only, which can be used with or without an IDE.

Using the IDE

Open the Visual Studio IDE and select Create New Project. When you are directed to the next screen, search for the django keyword and in the list of results, select Blank Django Web Project, as depicted here:

Figure 2.2 – Visual Studio – Create a new project

On the next screen, enter becoming_a_django_entdev for Project Name. This will auto...