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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
Book Image

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

Resolving absolute URLs

An absolute URL includes the scheme, host, and port of a URL, as in the following format, scheme://host:port/path?query. This is an example of an absolute URL: https://www.example.com:8000/my_path?query=my_query_value.

Next, we will resolve an absolute URL while introducing the practice of using custom context processors.

Creating a context processor

Context processors are useful in many ways: they provide context that is shared globally among all templates and views within a project. Alternatively, the context being created in a view can only be used by the template that the view is using and no other templates. In the next example, we will create and then activate a custom global context processor where we will add the base URL of the site. We will call the context variable base_url, referring to scheme://host:port of the URL found throughout this project's site.

Follow these steps to create your context processor:

  1. In the same folder...