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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 the Meta subclass

Model metadata is an inner class of a model called Meta. It is not required and completely optional but it does make using Django much more useful when it is included in your models. Metadata provides all of the "other" information that is not defined in model field arguments. The settings that are defined inside this class are called meta options, and there are quite a lot to choose from. We will go over only some of the most commonly used options in the following sections and how they can be helpful. A complete breakdown of all of the options is available here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/models/options/.

Meta options – verbose_name and verbose_name_plural

We can use the verbose_name and verbose_name_plural options to specify what human-readable text is used in areas of the Django admin site or if we look it up later in the code that we write. We will introduce the Django admin site in Chapter 6, Exploring the Django Admin...