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Django Security - Markus Holtermann

May 6, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Markus is a longtime Django contributor. We discuss the work of the Security and Ops Teams, his day job at Crate.io, async, and the future of Django.

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User Interaction With Forms

May 5, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In the previous Understand Django article, we saw how Django templates work to produce a user interface. That’s fine if you only need to display a user interface, but what do you do if you need your site to interact with users? You use Django’s form system! In this article, we’ll focus on how to work with web forms using the Django form system. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The Th…

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Using webpack with Django: it's not easy as you think

May 3, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

Most approaches to using webpack with Django work until the JavaScript app is tiny. What happens when the bundle grows?

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Optimizing Django ORM Queries

May 3, 2020 » django on roschegel » [Archived Version]

The Django ORM (Object Relational Mapping) is one of the most powerful features of Django. It enables us to interact with the database using Python code instead of SQL. It has multiple advantages: The database engine is abstracted from us, so it is possible to switch to another database system with ease. It supports migrations: we can easily change our tables by updating our models and Django will automatically generate the migration scripts needed to update the database tables. It supports tr…

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Practices of the Python Pro - Dane Hillard

April 29, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Dane is the author of a new book, Practices of the Python Pro. We discuss using Django at scale, pytest, and teaching beginners.

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Working with request.data in Django REST framework

April 28, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

Django REST generic views are amazing, but working with request.data in Django REST framework can be tricky ...

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JustDjango - Matthew Freire

April 15, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

JustDjango is a popular YouTube channel and website dedicated to Django learning resources. We discuss how Matthew learned Django, building the website itself, payments, mentors, and more.

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How to handle multiple sites (virtual hosts) in Django

April 10, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

It's common to have a single Django project serving requests for multiple domains. Learn how to route each request to the right app.

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Translations - Andrew Knight

April 8, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Django has a powerful built-in translations framework that we discuss with Andrew Knight. Topics include internationalization vs localization, common gotchas, Django’s internal translations team, and more.

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Episode 4 - Building User Interfaces

April 8, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

On this episode, we look at templates, the primary tool that Django provides to build user interfaces in your Django app. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the previous episode, we talked about views and how views handle requests to create HTTP responses for users. Set Up Templates are static files that Django will fill in with data. In order to use those files, we must instruct Django on where to find them.

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