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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

Using form fields

Similar to the standard model field classes introduced in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, Django also provides a number of form field classes that are available to use. The difference is that a model field class works with the columns of a database and a form field class is used only as an input field within an HTML <form></form> object in a template.

The following table can be used as a cheat sheet to reference what fields are available when writing your Form and/or ModelForm classes:

Form fields also accept a variety of different field arguments that customize the behavior of each field. In the next section, we will use some of the field types in the preceding list to write fields on our form classes, discussing the different arguments that can be used.

For a complete breakdown of each of these field types, visit the official Django documentation on field classes and arguments, found here: https://docs...