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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

Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance

Models represent tables, also known as objects, within a database. Django provides a simple way to map objects to a project's underlying database(s). We will use this mapping system to work with other components of Django in later chapters of this book, such as a template, view, or form, to name a few. Anything that relies on accessing data from within a database will rely on the models that we create. If a project connects to an external database system or the project uses an API to interact with data, then there is no need to create any models in that situation.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Writing model classes to create database tables
  • Using standard field types and third-party field types
  • Configuring field validators
  • Linking tables through field relationships
  • Working with model meta classes and options
  • Using model methods and method decorators
  • Practicing extending models
  • ...