Django News - 400 DSF Members - Jan 31st 2025

Explore the fundamentals of database indexing in Django—covering types, advantages, and practical examples—to help you significantly improve query performance and scalability in your projects.

An overview of Django views, covering function-based vs. class-based approaches, best practices, and practical PyCharm tips for streamlined web development.

Django 5.2 introduces the new simple_block_tag(), demonstrated here with HTMX to validate and test custom attributes for more robust and maintainable components.

A practical method for testing Django-based LLM apps with LangChain uses a custom fake backend to avoid mocks, enabling flexible refactoring and thorough validation of model interactions.

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A welcome addition in Django 5.0, the concept of field groups makes a lot easier to customize the layout of our Django forms.

A look at different ways to combine scheduled and one-off background jobs in Django—comparing django-apscheduler, django-tasks, django-q2, Celery, and cron—to handle tasks like sending email and long-running processes efficiently.