News
Python Software Foundation - December 2022 Newsletter
In case you missed the PSF's December Newsletter, you might want to check it out to see what is the latest information about what is going on with the PSF and PyCon US 2023.
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Articles
Electron + Django, desktop app integrate JavaScript & Python
Learn how to build a desktop app with Electron and Django in this two-part article. The Django application runs while the desktop app is running.
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Making pip installs a little less slow
Some valuable advice for speeding up pip install both inside and outside of containers.
Events
PyCon Italia: Call For Proposals
You have until January 15th, 2023, AoE, to submit your talk to PyCon Italia 2023!
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Tutorials
Introduction to Custom Actions and Bulk Actions in Django
Learn how to add custom and bulk actions to the Django admin dashboard in this tutorial.
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Build a fast search UI with Meilisearch, HTMX and Django
Learn how to build an Airbnb-like property search UI using Meilisearch, an open-source, fast, and relevant search engine that can easily be added to your Django app. Use Django templates and HTMX for the front end, with just ten lines of javascript.
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Videos
DjangoCon US: Django Logging Demystified with Lee Trout
Learn more about how Django leverages Python's logging facilities and how to customize logging for your application to support structured logging, custom formatting and more!
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DjangoCon US: factory_boy: testing like a pro with Camila Maia
How to test complex objects using the library factory_boy. The lessons I’ve learned using the tool in a Django monolith containing 230+ tables and 75k+ relevant lines of code for over 3 years.
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DjangoCon US: Herding your database queries: diagnosing, improving and guarding performance of DB interactions
Django ORM makes it easy to persist and retrieve DB information. However, it is also easy to accidentally introduce a lot of DB queries in your request flow if you are not careful. This talk goes over some scenarios where this can take place and demonstrates approaches to finding, eliminating, and ultimately protecting against these excessive and/or expensive queries.
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Projects
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