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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 the Django authentication system

Django provides a very powerful authentication system to grant permission rights to users. By default, a superuser has the authority to do everything, which is why we had to create at least one superuser in Chapter 2, Project Configuration. That superuser is needed at all times within the Django system to maintain control of your site and your data. The superuser granted us the ability to take control of our system and establish user roles and groups for every other user in the system. Creating a user and superuser can be done via the command line using a Django management command or through the IDE, just like when we explored those subjects in Chapter 2, Project Configuration. It can also be done through the Django shell, as we did in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, when we created and saved models using the Django shell. user and Seller are just other model objects that we create and save. Now that we have access to the Django...