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How to create a Django project and a Django application

April 4, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

Learn how to create a Django project and a Django application in this quick-start tutorial.

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Django JSON logging

April 4, 2020 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]

Use python-json-logger package to output JSON log with Django

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Templates For User Interfaces

April 2, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In the previous Understand Django article, we looked at the fundamentals of using views in Django. This article will focus on templates. Templates are your primary tool in a Django project for generating a user interface. With templates, you’ll be able to build the pages that users will see when they visit your web app. Let’s see how templates hook into views and what features Django provides with its template system.

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LearnDjango.com

April 1, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Will recently launched a new Django site, LearnDjango.com. We discuss architecting new projects, prototypes vs production, payments, performance, and more.

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Google Summer of Code - Sage Abdullah

March 25, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Sage was a 2019 Google Summer of Code student and contributed cross-db JSONField support coming in Django 3.1. We discuss his background in programming and advice for future student contributors.

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More on service layers in Django

March 23, 2020 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

Well, that provoked some discussion. While there were plenty of people who agreed with the general idea of that post, there were also quite a few objections. And most of those seem to fall into two main categories: people who want some type of additional layer (and may or may not call it a “service”) as a way of managing cross-cutting complexity, and people who want it as an isolating abstraction for testing. There’s also a third … Read full entry

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More on service layers in Django

March 23, 2020 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

Well, that provoked some discussion. While there were plenty of people who agreed with the general idea of that post, there were also quite a few objections. And most of those seem to fall into two main categories: people who want some type of additional layer (and may or may not call it a “service”) as a way of managing cross-cutting complexity, and people who want it as an isolating abstraction for testing. There’s also a third … Read full entry

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Against service layers in Django

March 16, 2020 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

This post now has a followup. Recently I’ve seen posts and questions pop up in a few places about a sort of “enterprise” Django style guide that’s been getting attention. There are a number of things I disagree with in that guide, but the big one, and the one people have mostly been asking about, is the recommendation to add a “service layer” to Django applications. The short version of my opinion on this … Read full entry

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Against service layers in Django

March 16, 2020 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

This post now has a followup. Recently I’ve seen posts and questions pop up in a few places about a sort of “enterprise” Django style guide that’s been getting attention. There are a number of things I disagree with in that guide, but the big one, and the one people have mostly been asking about, is the recommendation to add a “service layer” to Django applications. The short version of my opinion on this … Read full entry

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