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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

Writing custom email templates

Writing HTML as a string in Python can get really messy. We can write the body contents, such as '<b>Hello World</b>', as a .html template file instead. That will allow us to organize multiple email templates into the /templates/emails/ directory of the chapter_7 app. Programming work can also be shared among developers in this way. Email templates can also be used for plain text-formatted emails, placing only the text without any HTML code inside of that .html file. While that may not sound appealing for plain text emails, this does have its benefits when working among a large team of developers. Let's begin with the simplest template using only plain text emails.

Django provides the get_template() method, found in the django.template.loader library. This method will be used for all the email template examples in the following subsections.

For plain text emails

Follow these steps to create a template for a plain text...