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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 5: Django Forms

In programming, a form is an object that contains input fields, drop-down boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, and a submit button. The duty of the form is to capture information from the user; what is done after that can be anything including storing that information in a database, sending an email, or generating a reporting document using that data. In this chapter, we discuss as much as we can about how forms are used in Django. Form objects are a very complex subject to discuss; we only have enough room in this chapter to cover the essentials and some advanced topics. Some of the topics in this chapter can be combined with other topics covered later in Chapter 8, Working with the Django REST Framework, to create form objects on SPA-like pages.

In our first form, we will create a class called ContactForm and build an email field in three different ways. Later, when we render that form in the browser, we will observe how its behavior changes using those three...