Optimize build time for a Django project running on GitHub Actions. A couple steps for faster tests and smoother workflow.
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Django filter – filter(A).filter(B) vs filter(A, B)
GitHub Actions in action – Setting up Django and Postgres
In this article, we go step by step setting up Django & Postgres on GitHub Actions.
Testing a third party Django application with pytest and tox
Let’s say we’ve got an idea for a third party application for Django. We’ve written all the code. We’ve run it against a small Django project in order to test it. Now we are ready to release it to PyPI for others to use. But we need to make sure our manual tests are actually translated into automatic ones. This article shows how you can do that.
Introducing an Enum choice field for Django
We created a small Django package that introduces an EnumChoiceField – a layer on top of CharField + choices, that uses Python’s enums.
What we learned from DjangoCon 2019?
We love going to DjangoCon.This year was our second time. This was our second DjangoCon in a row. In this article we share the talks that made us big impression!
Renaming models in Django without heavy data migrations
Renaming a key model in a huge Django application can be trickier than it seems. Tons of data migrations and halted feature development seems unavoidable. In this blog post we share our alternative approach, avoiding most of the pain.
How to deal with cases mismatch between Django and React
In this article, we explore how to deal with the casing mismatch between the JavaScript world (using camel case) and the Python / Django world (using snake case) using neat mixins, in combination with Django and Django Rest Framework.
Improve your tests in Django with fakes and factories
In this article we explore how to improve our Django tests using fakes & factories, generating random values & model instances.
Handle errors from third-party apps in Celery & Django
Almost every Web application needs to use some third-party software. The problem we usually have to deal with is that third-party apps, like every other app, can return an error. The following article is going to show you how to handle those problems in a nice and neat way in Django with Celery.
Cookiecutting Django Ansible
Integrating a “production-only” Google Analytics in Django
In this post we are exploring how to integrate Google Analytics in a Django project in a configurable way, so we don’t track page views & clicks while developing locally.
Integrating a password-protected MkDocs in Django
In this article we are exploring how to serve MkDocs via Django & password-protect it so only logged in users can access the documentation.