News
Django security releases issued: 3.0.7 and 2.2.13
Two new security patches. As ever, updating to the latest version of Django is highly recommended. Here is how to upgrade per the official docs.
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Articles
Minimal Environment Variables Setup for Django
A guide to configuring environment variables in Django projects.
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Django Class-Based Views in Diagrams
Starting with each class-based views (CBVs) dispatch method, these diagrams break down each view until it reaches a response or redirects.
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Spell Check Django Templates, HTML, Markdown, and RST Files in VS Code
How to add spellcheck support for HTML, Django/Jinja templates, reStructuredText (Sphinx), and markdown in VS Code.
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So you work in tech and want to support Black Lives Matter
dev.toI've written this guide for my fellow non-Black folks in tech to help you figure out for yourself what specific actions you can take to help, now and into the future.
Python Community Interview With Russell Keith-Magee
Russell is a longtime member of the Django community.
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Tutorials
Database Design Tutorial for Beginners
An introduction to databases and primary/foreign keys.
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How to Write an Installable Django App
A tutorial on turning a Django project app into a 3rd party package can be shared on PyPI so that others can fetch it through pip install.
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Podcasts
Running in Production - Zego
Zego is an insurance company written from scratch with Django and Python. It’s been running in production since early 2017 and they’ve issued out 290+ million hours of insurance so far.
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Django Chat #66 - Two Scoops of Django with Daniel Feldroy
Daniel and Audrey Feldroy are the authors of the updated book Two Scoops of Django as well as Django Crash Course. They created the popular cookiecutter, cookiecutter-django, and django-crispy-forms packages, as well as the Django Packages website.
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Projects
Tesorio/django-anon
Anonymize production data so it can be safely used in not-so-safe environments.
github.com
semente/django-smuggler
Django Smuggler is a pluggable application for Django Web Framework that helps you to import/export fixtures via the automatically-generated administration interface.
github.com
adamchainz/time-machine
From Django Technical Board Member Adam Johnson, a new package to travel through time in your tests. Meant to combine the advantages of freezegun and libfaketime. See the full write-up here.
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