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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 templates

The Django template language provides us with a set of template tags and template filters that are used to perform simple actions directly within a template. It makes it easy to perform simple logic operations, such as Python operations. Tags and filters are actually two different things that closely resemble each other. The Django template language can be closely compared to Shopify's Liquid syntax and is similar to the Razor syntax used in ASP.NET frameworks, but the Django template language is a bit easier to use and read. Django also allows us to create custom tags and filters for use within a project. Custom filters are most commonly used to transform a single context variable. Custom tags provide for more robust and complex use cases. For a complete breakdown of all of the template tags and template filters that exist, read the official Django documentation about them here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/templates/builtins/.

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