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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

Writing model managers

We now know that when we want to apply logic that pertains to a single object within a table, we will look into writing a model method. An advanced Django concept can allow us to add logic that would relate to the entire table of objects instead. That would be written using a model manager instead of a model method. By default, Django automatically creates a model manager for every model that you write. That manager is called the objects manager, as in when we write a query statement such as MyModel.objects.all(). Since the objects manager is already created for us, there is technically no need for us to create a model manager at all. However, custom model managers can be used in a project to provide additional methods that the entire table uses. We will discuss a simple use of this concept that adds filters to a table. To learn more about how model managers can be used in more depth, visit the official Django documentation, found here: https://docs.djangoproject...