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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

Preparing PostgreSQL for Heroku

This section is dedicated to actually configuring each of your environments, whether using an IDE or command-line window or terminal. To install and use PostgreSQL, we will need to install it locally and then again in each of our remote environments.

Installing PostgreSQL

This section will guide you through installing the PostgreSQL software needed on your local and remote machines.

Local installation

To use PostgreSQL, we will need to install a suite of software and drivers on each of our machines. In the Heroku dashboards, we will need to include add-ons to get PostgreSQL installed in those environments. To install it on your development machine, you can choose to download the installer for your platform directly from the publisher's website, found here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/. During installation, make note of the port that you set, the password that you create, and whether it asks you to add anything to your environment...