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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Undertaking a Colossal Project, gives you an understanding of how to prepare for a large project.

Chapter 2, Project Configuration, covers virtual environments, hosting, and deployment.

Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, covers database table structures.

Chapter 4, URLs, Views, and Templates, covers rendering HTML with Django.

Chapter 5, Django Forms, covers rendering HTML forms with Django.

Chapter 6, Exploring the Django Admin Site, looks at Django's built-in administration site.

Chapter 7, Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports, covers using Django to send emails and create documents.

Chapter 8, Working with the Django REST Framework, covers building APIs with Django.

Chapter 9, Django Testing, covers writing test scripts with Django.

Chapter 10, Database Management, covers optimizing database queries.