Django News - Real-time chat application in Django 4.2 with Server-Sent Events - May 19th 2023
News
Lily Foote just added support for database defaults on fields. Coming to Django 5.0 in December. This is a massive effort--18 years after the ticket was created.
Thanks also to Simon Charette, Adam Johnson, and Mariusz Felisiak for reviews.
Django Software Foundation
The Steering Council for the Django 5.x release cycle with 74 votes received out of 268 eligible voters:
- Simon Charette
- Andrew Godwin
- Adam Johnson
- James Bennett
A list of grants made by the DSF in support of the community for May 2023.
Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, May 13, 2023.
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Articles
A very, very cool example of using "old" tech to solve new problems, aka using server-sent events, Psycopg3, and Django 4.2 to write a "real-time" chat application without using websockets.
More notes on moving from PHP over to Django for an immersive video game that can be used to learn astronomy at the introductory college level.
An explanation of the differences between dateutil and pytz's time zone models and why people tend to misuse pytz and introduce bugs into their datetime code.
Events
The fourth edition Django Day Copenhagen is happening October 6th. It will be a full day of talks--either in-person or online.
The Call for Proposals is now open as well.
Tutorials
An overview of several ways to perform form validation in Django.
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Videos
Short screencast demoing the features included in the free DjangoX starter project.
Projects
Dockerized Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Traefik (with auto renew Let's Encrypt).
Web based localization tool with tight version control integration.
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