Django Turns 15 and New Releases!

News

Django's 15th Birthday

Somehow we missed this last week, but July 17th, 2005 was the public introduction of Django. Here is co-creator Simon Willison's initial blog post. As well as a 2015 talk on Django origins.

Django 3.1 Release Candidate

This is the final chance to try 3.1 features before the release on August 3rd.

Python 3.8.5 and 3.9.0b5 released

Python 3.8.5 released as a security hotfix. 3.9.0b5, the last beta before 3.9.0, also available

Wagtail 2.9.3 and 2.7.4 released

Wagtail 2.9.3 and 2.7.4 were released to prevent an HTML injection through form field.

Articles

XSS Exploitation in Django Applications

Anthony Shaw covers various ways to exploit the Django templating engine in a modern web application.

Disable Instrumentation Packages during Tests by Adam Johnson

Performance tips around instrumentation like django-debug-toolbar and others that can be disabled for tests.

Update Django template fragment caches in the background

Nicolas Kuttler refactors some code that uses Django's template fragment caching to use low-level cache API.

What is Django (Python)?

A beginner-friendly overview of Django.

My GPG setup for developing and more

If you aren't digitally signing your Git commits then this article is for you.

Deploying your Django 3 App

A useful guide to getting your Django application ready for deployment.

Pure serverless Django with django-gcloud-connectors

Katie McLaughlin walks through using django-gcloud-connectors to make a Django deployment on Google Cloud completely serverless (and in theory, free!)

Design Articles

User-Generated Themes with Django and CSS Variables

Kasey Kelly walks us through a technique for customizing colors and other per page CSS styles using Django.

Relearn CSS layout: Every Layout

If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves. Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.

Tutorials

Getting Started with Content Security Policy using Django

A very nice step-by-step to adding CSP to your Django site.

NameError: name 'os' is not defined

Django 3.1 introduces pathlib by default which will cause subtle issues for anyone using older tutorials.

Modern JavaScript for Django Developers

A 4-part course on integrating JavaScript into a Django app.

Python Dependency Locking with pip-tools

A guide to using pip-tools for Python dependency as opposed to pipenv or poetry.

Videos

Multiple User Types With Custom Data Fields | Django

From the author Two Scoops of Django, a look at adding custom data fields to a Django model.

Podcasts

Django Riffs - Models and Managers and Querysets, Oh My!

Matt Layman explores models and how to interact with data in your database.

Django Chat - Modern Django Development with Jeff Triplett

Even though Django Chat is taking a summer break, we somehow missed sharing this episode.

Running in Production: A Site to View 3D Scans of Cars with Twinner

Jesse Hunt talks about building a site with Django that lets you view 3D scans of cars with Twinner. It’s hosted on 2 Heroku hobby Dynos and has been up and running in production since January 2020.

Projects

cobusc/django-protected-media

Separate handling of protected media in Django, with X-Sendfile support.

Bogdanp/django_dramatiq

A Django app that integrates with Dramatiq.

Dramatiq, a background task processing library with a focus on simplicity, reliability and performance, is new to us.

github/renaming

Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories

timothycrosley/isort

A Python utility/library to sort imports.

isort version 5.0.0 added profiles and now includes a Django profile for matching Django's import sorting style.

Django Turns 15 and New Releases! July 24th 2020