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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

Adding inline formsets

An inline formset is a form within a form. It's a way to provide dynamic fields, for example, for additional personnel, comments, or objects. They are commonly used in combination with JavaScript code on the frontend to create or remove sets of fields as desired by the user. In the next exercise, we will expand upon the ModelFormClassCreateView class to add our inline formset. This formset will capture prospective buyer information, to capture the first and last name of that lead. We will create an Add Another button for the user to add as many prospective buyers as they would like to. JavaScript is used to control creating and/or deleting the new DOM objects. It will also update the Django management form data in the process. You can build upon this concept to make your form more robust with added fields and controls for the user to manipulate inline formsets.

Follow the steps in the following sections to get started with inline formsets.

Formset...