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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

Generating PDF reports

Django relies on the support of third-party packages in order to generate PDF documents. Their own documentation even suggests using the reportlab package; however, any third-party package that provides PDF support can be used. When using anything other than reportlab, refer to that package's documentation for instructions on how to use that package. The reportlab package even provides sample PDF invoices, reports, catalogs, and more for developers to get started quickly and easily, that is, if they are using the paid Plus version of the reportlab package. The Plus version requires the rlextra package, which is not available to the public. To learn more about what this service and package can provide, visit their documentation at https://www.reportlab.com/dev/docs/.

For the exercises throughout this section, we will be using the xhtml2pdf package instead, which is also free but a bit simpler and easier to use when working with template-based PDFs. We...