If you’re using the Django web framework (DRF) and are building APIs, you probably know about the Django Rest Framework a toolkit to build APIs in Django since more than a decade (the first 3.x version was release in 2014). It’s great and I’ve used it …
HTMX is a JavaScript library designed to add interactivity to your web pages. With it, you don’t build a single page application, you use standard templates (written in Django, Jinja) rendered in your backend, add attributes to your HTML elements and let HTMX add the appropriate interactivity. From what …
Recently I encountered a very weird behavior in my Django project test suite. I created a view that caught an IntegrityError from the database (caused by duplicates in a unique index). When this error occurs, I want to respond with a 409 - CONFLICT status code and an error message.
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Now that Django is fully async (views, middleware and ORM), I though it was a good time to test how it behaves when run asynchronously. I’ll try to keep this article concise with only relevant data and resources. Code can be seen in a sample project so you can …
Today I'd like to explain how I tried to solve a weird HTTP issues that I found at work. I hope you will find the method and the trials I used the useful/interesting if/when you will encounter something similar.
The issue was this: I needed to dynamically generate …
If you deploy multiple Django websites on your infrastructure on various subdomains, you may get issues about invalid CSRF tokens. This is happening either because:
How to create a database sequence that will be reset everyday? That is a sequence that will get one the first time of each day? It sounds easy but it's not that much.
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This article will focus on PostgreSQL since it's the database I use. A similar solution may …
If you need to store a datetime range in Django (for instance from which day to which day a listing is valid), instead of relying on two fields like valid_from and valid_to, you can use a single field validity_range of type DateRangeField. This way, both values are stored …
I recently deployed a React app in kubernetes. It was initially deployed directly in a public bucket: I have an API that is already hosted on kubernetes, but the app itself is made only of static files, so it made sense. However, requirements for my app changed and I required …
This will be a continuation of my article Some tips to deploy Django in kubernetes. In this previous article, I talked about generic tips you should apply to deploy Django into kuberentes. Here, I'll focus on static files.
If you don't already know that, gunicorn (or any other app server …