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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

Rendering forms in templates

Django offers five main ways to easily and quickly render a form object onto a page. The first three are to render a form using a paragraph, table, or list structure. The other two include the traditional way of rendering a form, which is based on the template in the django.forms.templates.django.forms library called default.html, and then a way to render your own template. New to Django 4.0 is the template_name option on all form classes. This option allows you to point to a template file where you can structure your own HTML formatting.

Follow these steps to render your form objects:

  1. Copy the base_template_1.html file that was created in Chapter 4, URLs, Views, and Templates, into your /becoming_a_django_entdev/chapter_5/templates/chapter_5/base/ folder. Copy all related partial template files that are added as {% include %} statements into that file as well.
  2. That base_template_1.html file will be repurposed as the base template for this...