News

Python Release Python 3.8.7

Python 3.8.7 is a bugfix release.

Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

The Basecamp folks put up a marketing website announcing some new OSS tools which promote sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

Django Backend Support for Hotwire Discussion

If you are curious about how to use Hotwire with Django, checkout this discussion.

Articles

Creating Custom Postgres Data Types in Django

Some tips on creating new data types in Postgres and bringing them into a Django application.

How to Mock the Current Date and Time in Python by Adam Johnson

If you’re testing Python code that relies on the current date or time, you will probably want to mock time to test different scenarios but doing so isn't that easy. Adam Johnson shares some tips on how to overcome this.

Learn about ghapi, a new third-party Python client for the GitHub API

From FastAI, the first Python library and CLI to provide complete, idiomatic access to the entire GitHub API, using a consistent interface

pauloxnet – Maps with Django (part 1): GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet

A step-by-step guide to mapping in Django using GeoDjango, Leaflet, and more. Much needed as there are few good resources like this in the GeoDjango space.

Events

PyCon Us 2021 Call for Proposals is Open!

PyCon US 2021 will be virtual but the call for proposals is open now until February 12, 2021.

Podcasts

Django Chat #81: Search & GeoDjango - Paolo Melchiorre

Paolo is a Django contributor and prolific conference speaker based in Italy. We discuss using PostgreSQL-powered full text search within Django as using GeoDjango for mapping projects.

Projects

vitalik/django-ninja

Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs

LeeHanYeong/django-quill-editor

django-quill-editor makes Quill.js easy to use on Django Forms and admin sites.

fastai/ghapi

A delightful and complete interface to GitHub's amazing API.

While the GitHub API is one of the easier to roll your own, doing so is not without its pain points. GhApi is generated from GitHub's OpenAPI spec so that it's always updated.

django-unicorn: full-stack framework for Django ✨

django-unicorn is a reactive component framework that progressively enhances a normal Django view, makes AJAX calls in the background, and dynamically updates the DOM.