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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

Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports

In this chapter, we will work with the Django messages framework, email notifications and templates, and PDF documents. In order for us to know that emails are actually being sent from our system and that they are rendered correctly in different email clients, we will be using a free third-party service to capture all of our outgoing emails. By capturing all outgoing emails, we can prevent development and test emails from being sent to people who should not be seeing them yet. We will use HTML, CSS, and the Django template language to create email and PDF report templates. Both will use context data just like how we passed context into templates in Chapter 4, URLs, Views, and Templates.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Creating a test environment for capturing all emails sent by the app
  • Using the Django messages framework to create flash messages and custom message levels
  • Creating...