Django Developers Survey 2020
Django survey, XSS exploitations, ToDo App with DRF, Django Templates Linting, and more.
News
Django Developers Community Survey 2020
Please take a few minutes to complete the 2020 survey and help guide the future development of Django.
Abigail Dogbe Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q1 2020
From Django Girls workshop mentee in 2017 to lead organizer of PyLadies Ghana and co-organizer of PyCon Africa 2019, Abigail received the PSF Community Service Award for Q1 2020.
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Speed Up Your Django Tests
Are you bored of waiting for "manage.py test" to finish? Read this book while you wait! It has many tips and tricks that apply to all projects, big and small, and it covers both Django's test framework and pytest.
Articles
How to Use Django's Parallel Testing on macOS With Python 3.8+ by Adam Johnson
Speed up parallel testing via this excerpt from Adam Johnson's book Speed Up Your Django Tests.
Is Django too slow?
A look at benchmarks and concurrency in Django vs competing web frameworks.
Docker & Django local development: a minimal, step-by-step guide
A beginner-friendly guide to Docker and Django local development.
A Deep Dive into PostGIS Nearest Neighbor Search
PostGIS adds geographic object support to PostgreSQL and is used in the GeoDjango module.
XSS Exploitation in Django Applications
An overview of various exploits that can work against the Django templating engine in a modern web application.
Writing Models in Django
A nice beginner's intro to creating a model and a superuser.
Tutorials
How to manage logs with Django, Gunicorn and NGINX
A guide to configuring logging for Django, NGINX, and Gunicorn.
Creating A To-Do List App With Django, DRF, Alpine.Js, Axios, and TailwindCSS
A step-by-step guide to a basic Todo app using Django, Django Rest Framework, Alpine.js, and Axios.
Fetching Data with AJAX and Django
Use fetch to make AJAX GET and POST requests in Django.
Projects
thibaudcolas/curlylint
If you have been looking for a Django HTML template linter, then checkout out Curlylint. It's experimental and very promising.
incuna/django-pgcrypto-fields
Transparent field-level encryption for Django using the pgcrypto PostgreSQL extension.
percipient/django-querysetsequence
The QuerySetSequence wrapper helps to deal with disparate QuerySet classes, while treating them as a single QuerySet.
tonybaloney/django-xss-fuzzer
An XSS vulnerability fuzz tester for Django views.
Brobin/django-seed
Seed your Django database with fake data.
