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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 messages framework

Let's begin by introducing the Django Messages Framework, which is a framework used to provide session-based messages to the user. A flash message is a one-time notification message displayed directly to the user and is the kind of message that this framework creates. What we can do with this is render messages to the user anywhere we put the code inside our templates, whether that be in a modal popup or a message that drops down from the top of the page or comes up from the bottom of the page. It can even appear above or below a form that the user is submitting.

The chapter_7 FormClassView class will be the primary working class throughout this chapter, as it will be used primarily to trigger the actions we will be writing. We will be writing the methods to perform those actions in the corresponding ContactForm class used by that FormClassView class of the chapter_7 app.

Before we start writing those classes, we will begin by enabling...