Wagtail in the news
Multiple articles on Wagtail, SPA auth, understand middleware, and more.
News
Announcing the Location for PyCon US 2022/2023
PyCon US 2022 and 2023 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wagtail 2.11.3 release notes
Wagtail 2.11.3 includes four bug fixes and one upgrade consideration to look at before you upgrade.
Articles
Django Session-based Auth for Single Page Apps
A look at how to authenticate Single-Page Applications (SPAs) with Django session-based authentication. Suitable for a frontend built with React/Vue/Angular/etc.
Introducing django-version-checks by Adam Johnson
Notes on the recently released django-version-checks package and why it came to be.
12 Days of Performance by REVSYS
An oldie but a goodie.
Understanding Django: Middleware Do You Go?
Another in Matt Layman's series on Understand Django, this is a deep look at middleware.
Useful Flake8 Plugins for Python Linting
This is a nice introduction to Flake8 and many useful plugins.
Events
Wagtail Documentation Sprint
We're running a two-day sprint, focused on Wagtail's documentation, and we'd love you to come. It will be on January 7th and 8th 2021 and will take place in Torchbox's offices in the UK (depending on what's safe by then), as well as remotely.
Design Articles
Pattern Lab goes Django
Torchbox recently released django-pattern-library, a Django version of Patterns Labs popular templates. This article explains the benefits of the approach and Torchbox's Django spin on the pattern.
Videos
What I now know about HAproxied Django DB connections, and wish I'd known sooner by Florian Haas
Projects
hakancelik96/unimport
Unimport is an auto-formatter and linter for finding and removing unused import statements.
vintasoftware/drf-rw-serializers
Generic views, viewsets and mixins that extend the Django REST Framework ones adding separated serializers for read and write operations.
vint21h/django-mcadmin
Easy run management commands from Django admin.
adamchainz/django-version-checks
System checks for your project's environment from Adam Johnson.
torchbox/django-pattern-library/
UI pattern libraries for Django templates.
