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 …

For several years, I hosted my own Matomo instance to track traffic on my blog and projects while respecting the privacy of my users. It worked well, but it was the only service I had running on MariaDB. All the other ones are running on PostgreSQL. And I had several …

I recently wrote a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium based browsers for my Legadilo (RSS feeds aggregator and articles saver) project. The goal is to make it easier and faster to save an article or to subscribe to a feed directly on a web page without forcing you to …

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 …

During the summer, I decided to test a few frontend framework to see what’s going on in this space and form a better opinions over alternatives to React. I tested Svelte because after hearing from it I felt attracted to it, Vue because it is popular, React to have …

If you need to send data from your JS code to your ServiceWorker, you can do it like this:

navigator.serviceWorker.register("./sw.js").then(registration => {
    registration.active.postMessage("Some message");
});

You can then rely on this code in the ServiceWorker to read the message:

self.addEventListener("message", event => {
    console …

This article is an update to a previous article why you want to build a SPA which I think was laking some nuance and precision. Reading this article is not required to read this one. I'm writing this update because SPAs are very popular and I recently though more about …

I am currently working professionally on a website that is not a SPA. I'd like to …