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News

Django Project Primary Git branch renamed

The Django Project renamed the primary branch of the Django git repository from "master" to "main". If you run tests against a nightly checkout, you may need to adjust your CI targets.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory launches on Wagtail CMS

The eyes of the world turned to JPL as the Perseverance Rover touched down on Mars. They did so via the new jpl.nasa.gov site, the Lab’s digital home for missions, science news, images and videos, recently redesigned and rebuilt on Wagtail.

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Articles

Writing tests for the Django admin with pytest-django

Django co-creator, Simon Willison, shows us how to write tests for the Django Admin to test a form submission.

Getting Started with Alpine.js

Django Fellow Carlton Gibson shows us both a basic and a more complex example of using Alpine.js.

Five Common Django Mistakes

A list of five common mistakes with code snippets to back it up.

Efficient Postgres Full Text Search in Django

A detailed look at Postgres's built-in full text search which is available in Django.

Make tests a part of your app

This testing article shows us a Design-by-Contract library we have never seen before called deal.

Events

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Projects

python/pythondotorg

The official Python.org website uses Django and is a great project to see how a large site at scale is written.

nickjj/docker-django-example

A production ready example Django app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.

Django ORM: Updating a JSONField based on the value of another field

This gist shows how to update the value of a JSONField using its key.

imagineai/create-django-app

Easy one-line command to create a Django app with all the dependencies installed.

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