Django community: Community blog posts RSS
This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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Normalize Your Django REST Serializers
When dealing with models with nested relationships, it may initially make sense to serialize them in a nested format. However, you may soon discover that this has a couple of potential issues. This structure can result in a lot of duplication in the serialized data, especially for many-to-many relationships. Since those objects are nested, you don’t have them all in one place for easy referencing or updating. Working around this requires tedious iteration and transformation. These issues are especially pronounced in Javascript applications that use state methodologies or technologies like Redux. Redux applications work much better when your data is normalized. Normalization facilitates cleaner code, makes updating state simpler, and ensures that the fewest possible UI components are forced to re-render due to such updates. When you are using an external API that you have no control over, you may be forced to normalize your data on the client. For this, you can use a tool such as normalizr. However, if you are creating your own Django REST API, you can save yourself some trouble and added frontend complexity and normalize server-side. Understand the Problem Consider an example blog application. Your models might look like this: from django.db import models ... -
Terminal Prompt Formatting
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MedX App: Secure, Real-time Healthcare Messaging with PubNub and AWS Translate
The healthcare industry is hungry for innovation. Companies like MedX are driving that innovation, using technology to revolutionize how healthcare happens. MedX is a secure, compliant, real-time messaging solution (iOS/Android) that improves quality of care for patients by streamlining doctor-to-doctor communication. As MedX’s development partner, Distillery was fortunate to help build the solution. The post MedX App: Secure, Real-time Healthcare Messaging with PubNub and AWS Translate appeared first on Distillery. -
Django Depends on You: A Takeaway from DjangoCon
DjangoCon 2018 attracted attendees from around the world, including myself and several other Cakti (check out our DjangoCon recap post). Having attended a number of DjangoCons in the past, I looked forward to reconnecting with old colleagues and friends within the community, learning new things about our favorite framework, and exploring San Diego. While it was a privilege to attend DjangoCon in person, you can experience it remotely. Thanks to technology and the motivated organizers, you can view a lot of the talks online. For that, I am thankful to the DjangoCon organizers, sponsors, and staff that put in the time and energy to ensure that these talks are readily available for viewing. Learn How to Give Back to the Django Framework While I listened to a lot of fascinating talks, there was one that stood out and was the most impactful to me. I also think it is relevant and important for the whole Django community. If you have not seen it, I encourage you to watch and rewatch Carlton Gibson’s “Your web framework needs you!". Carlton was named a Django Fellow in January of 2018 and provides a unique perspective on the state of Django as an open ... -
Custom Domains for Zappa Projects
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Custom Domains for Zappa Projects
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RDS Database for Serverless Django + Zappa on AWS Lambda
This is a critical piece of ha... -
Serverless Django with Zappa on AWS Lambda
Going serverless with Django a... -
Prepare AWS IAM User, Role, and Policies for Zappa and Serverless Python
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Python Overtakes Java
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Get List of Current Users
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Facebook's Parse is Closing
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Python Cheat Sheet
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My Equipment
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AngularJS vs jQuery
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Django App Structure
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Syncdb is ... gone?
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A Fantastic Ted Talk
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Everything coming in 2017
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*args and **kwargs
So when you write any given fu... -
New URL Structure for Django
Django 1.10 has changed the re... -
Which Version to Use?
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Testing Email in Django with send_mail
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TemplateDoesNotExist error
I see this error come up a lot...
