Enforcing conventions in Django projects with introspection
Introspection in Python involves tools like isinstance(), type(), hasattr(), and more advanced techniques like the inspect module and metaprogramming dunder methods.
Django allows for introspection using standard Python techniques along with formally documented functions and methods for inspecting Django apps and models. [ more ]
Integrating Django templates with React for dynamic webpages - LogRocket Blog
Django and React can be integrated to create dynamic websites by leveraging Django's server-side capabilities and React's interactive user interface. [ more ]
Creating Asynchronous Tasks With Celery and Django - Real Python
Celery helps offload time-intensive tasks from your Django app to ensure a smoother user experience.
The video course covers effective use cases, differences between Celery beat and workers, integration with Redis, setting up asynchronous tasks, and refactoring Django code. [ more ]
New DSF board member Thibaud Colas has proposed a Django roadmap workshop.
The proposed ideas for improving Django include organizing active developer sprints, simplifying the English used in the documentation, and adding a quick start section. [ more ]
The Python unittest module is often criticized for not being "Pythonic", but it was designed to be consistent with the xUnit style and to be familiar to anyone who has used an xUnit-style testing framework.
Many people prefer the pytest testing framework over unittest, but if you're using Django, its default testing tools are built on top of unittest. [ more ]
How to Render Markdown in a Django Application - Real Python
Django's admin interface doesn't provide a way to format text-based content, but Markdown can be used as a solution.
Markdown is a plain text formatting language that converts to HTML and is popular for both technical and non-technical content creators.
Using Markdown with Django admin provides a simpler alternative to a full-blown CMS and offers benefits like increased security and multi-format publishing. [ more ]