News

New DjangoCon t-shirts

Beautiful new t-shirt designs representing DjangoCon US, Europe, Australia, and Africa have been added to the store!

Django 3.1.2 bugfix release

A new bugfix package is available.

Django REST Framework 3.12 release

The 3.12 release brings a handful of refinements to the OpenAPI schema generation, plus support for Django's new database-agnostic JSONField, and some improvements to the SearchFilter class.

Wagtail 2.10.2 release

New updates to the popular Django CMS.

pytest 6.1.0 released

A new version of the very popular Python testing package is out.

django-filter 2.4.0 released

A security update to 2.4.0. Upgrading highly recommended.

Celery v5.0.0 Released

Version 5.0.0 of Celery, a very popular distributed task queue.

Articles

Understanding Django - Anatomy of an Application

The 8th in a series from Matt Layman, this one focusing on understanding Django apps.

Deep dive: Django Q and SQS

A look at AWS SQS combined with the popular django-q package.

How to build a React application in a Django project

Part 4 in a series on Modern JavaScript for Django Developers.

Events

PyGotham TV

PyGotham TV is this Friday, Oct. 2 & Saturday, Oct. 3, and tickets are FREE.

Python Web Conf 2021 CFP

Python Web Conference is a fully virtual, 3 day, 3 track conference you can join from the comfort of your home office. Their CFP just opened up.

Tutorials

How to Contribute to Django Docs

A guide to making contributions to the official DjangoProject.com website.

Videos

Django Day Copenhagen 2020

Videos from Django Day Copenhagen are up!

On a shoe-string and a t2.small: scaling on a [zero] budget

Tom Eastman's PyConline AU 2020 walks through how to keep your side project affordable using Django and Celery.

Podcasts

Django Chat - Teaching Python with Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy is the creator of the Talk Python podcast and courses. He joins us to discuss the state of Python, how Django fits into the larger Python community, and more.

Running in Production - Building a Django-based leader board for a flight simulator game

Paul Cappaert talks about building a leader board for a flight simulator that runs on Heroku, uses QR codes as a login mechanism, and has an API back-end so that the game server (Unity) running the simulator can report back stats.

Projects

jmcarp / nplusone

nplusone helps to detect the n+1 queries problems in Django and other Python ORMs.

PyCQA/isort

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically, and automatically separated into sections and by type. As recommended by the Django coding style docs.

arteria/django-hijack

With Django Hijack, admins can log in and work on behalf of other users without having to know their credentials.

Koed00/django-q

A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django