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Web Development with Django

You're reading from   Web Development with Django A definitive guide to building modern Python web applications using Django 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230603
Length 764 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bharath Chandra K S Bharath Chandra K S
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Django 2. Chapter 2: Models and Migrations FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: URL Mapping, Views, and Templates 4. Chapter 4: An Introduction to Django Admin 5. Chapter 5: Serving Static Files 6. Chapter 6: Forms 7. Chapter 7: Advanced Form Validation and Model Forms 8. Chapter 8: Media Serving and File Uploads 9. Chapter 9: Sessions and Authentication 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Django Admin and Customizations 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Templating and Class-Based Views 12. Chapter 12: Building a REST API 13. Chapter 13: Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files 14. Chapter 14: Testing Your Django Applications 15. Chapter 15: Django Third-Party Libraries 16. Chapter 16: Using a Frontend JavaScript Library with Django 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

django-configurations

One of the main considerations when deploying a Django application to production is how to configure it. As you have seen throughout this book, the settings.py file is where all your Django configuration is defined. Even third-party apps have their configuration in this file. You have already seen this in Chapter 12, Building a REST API, when working with the Django REST framework.

There are many ways to provide different configurations and switch between them in Django. If you have begun working on an existing application that already has a specific method of switching between configurations in development and production environments, then you should probably keep using that method.

When we release Bookr onto a product web server, in Chapter 17, Deploying a Django Application (Part 1 – Server Setup), we will need to switch to a production configuration, and that’s when we will use django-configurations.

To install django-configurations...

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