News

Django security releases issued: 4.1.6, 4.0.9, and 3.2.17

The new security release fixes a potential denial-of-service attack.

DjangoCon US 2023 Confirmed

It will take place in Durham, North Carolina, at the Durham Convention Center on October 16-20, 2023. More details to come.

Articles

Python’s “Disappointing” Superpowers

Luke Plan's long essay on does Python have Superpowers.

The Django Developer's Guide to Vite

An easy way to add JavaScript to your Django projects via Vite, which bills itself as next generation frontend tooling.

Django: migrations by choice

How to update choice lists in Django models without rolling a migration every time.

Tutorials

Official Django REST Framework Tutorial - A Beginners Guide

A 4.1 update to this lengthy beginner-friendly guide to the official Django REST Framework tutorial. Also comes with GitHub repo of the final code.

LearnDjango - How to Install Django

A beginner-friendly guide to properly installing Django 4.1. It covers the command line, installing Python 3.11, virtual environments, Django itself, and starting up the Django welcome page.

Podcasts

Django Chat #132: MongoDB with Mark Smith

Mark is a developer advocate at MongoDB, longtime Django developer, and co-chair of DjangoCon Europe 2023. We discuss how Mongo can work well alongside Django, type hinting, Rust, and more.

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Django Codebase

django-crispy-forms 2.0a1 - Show & Tell

The alpha release for django-crispy-forms is out. This is a widely used package and the maintainers are looking for people to test it out and provide any feedback.

Projects

TrangPham/django-admin-confirm

AdminConfirmMixin is a mixin for ModelAdmin that adds confirmations to changes, additions and actions.

readthedocs-examples/awesome-read-the-docs

A curated list of awesome Read the Docs projects.