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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

Summary

With the skills gained after completing the exercises found in this chapter, you can now create and send messages, notifications, and reports of various types. We now know how to use the Django messages framework to serve up flash messages every time a page loads or reloads. We can create and send emails of various content types and even use an email test client account to capture those emails, indicating that they are actually working. We even installed a package and began building our own PDF reports.

Use any combination of these tools to add value to your project. Flash messages, email notifications, and report generating concepts all help to keep users informed and engaged with your application. Always remember that too much information can overwhelm a user, such as having thousands of email notifications flooding their inbox. Use them wisely!

The Django messages framework offers a wide range of tools that can create flash messages for users. With a little bit of...