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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

Using basic database settings

A website by itself is far from useful without a database to talk to; this is why the Visual Studio IDE comes with a lightweight and portable SQLite3 database. Visual Studio will create a file called db.sqlite3 in the same folder as your manage.py file whenever the startproject command is executed. If you created your project using the terminal or command-line window, then you will not have a SQLite database that is used in the following configuration examples, and if you attempt to run your project without this database, it will fail. This is one of the five standard database types that Django directly supports. Database types other than the five types that Django directly supports can also be used. We will also provide an example of how to configure other types of databases, such as the Microsoft SQL Server database. Types that are not any of the five standard types will require using a different engine than the engines that Django provides, which means...