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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 4: URLs, Views, and Templates

In this chapter, we will build the URL patterns that route to different views, processing a request sent to the server. One of the jobs of a view is to send processed information in the form of context to a template that will be used to render static or dynamically changing content. By the end of this chapter, we will have created several URL patterns for the user to visit and view data. Some examples will trigger errors or not-found exceptions on purpose to help demonstrate the concepts provided in this chapter.

Django is based on what is called the Model-Template-View (MTV) architectural design pattern, which is similar to the well-known Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern used for a variety of popular web-based software systems today. The view in both of these architectural design patterns is what sometimes confuses people who are starting to learn Django and come from an MVC background. In both patterns, the model is the same, and...