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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

Project configuration

All projects need configuring in some way to work with all of the packages and hosts that are involved. We will take the project that we just created and configure files such as settings.py, .env, procfile, and .gitignore. Take the settings.py file—this file or files will store all of the global constants that are used throughout the code of your project. When packages are used, they usually provide a way to customize the behavior of that package from within the main settings file. Other files, such as .env and procfile, will be used to prevent deployment issues when working with Heroku as the host. Currently, we would not be able to deploy successfully to the Heroku environment as we have created the project files. Work through the following configuration sections before attempting a successful deployment.

Django settings.py file

In the settings.py file that was automatically generated for us when we created a project, we need to add settings specific...