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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

Types of forms

Django is designed to simplify a great deal of work involved when handling forms. It does this by providing ways to render your form object as HTML and process data on form submission. There are a lot of different ways to use and work with form objects but they all start with a form class. Django provides two different classes for us to use, ModelForm and Form. The differences between the two are that one links directly to the tables in a database and the other does not. The ModelForm class, the one that links to a database, will automatically create fields and perform field validation based on the field constraints set within that model class, from the database level.

Form classes also use a Meta subclass, as was used on a model class in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance. There are other form classes that Django provides, such as BaseForm and BaseModelForm, which are used to write abstract base form classes, but these form classes are beyond the scope...