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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

Working with complex views

A view method will suffice for a lot of different situations. For more robust and large-scale projects, we can apply a few tricks to make these views more adaptable in complicated use cases. Class-based views are used when writing adaptable and reusable applications.

Class-based views

With class-based views, we can write code that can be reused and extended easily. Just like when we extended models in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, we can extend view classes in the exact same way, whereas function-based view methods cannot provide this ability. Two templates have been provided with the source code of this book to be used in the next exercise. These two files are the exact same file as the my_vehicle.html file, except that the title of the <h1> tag in each has been changed to VehicleView Class 1 and VehicleView Class 2 so that when we run the following examples, we can see the differences between them.

Follow these steps to configure...