March 1, 2024

Django News - 28 PRs Merged into Django This Week! - Mar 1st 2024

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News

DjangoCon US 2024 CFP and Opportunity Grants are open!

DjangoCon US 2024's Call for Proposals and Opportunity Grants programs are now open until April 24, 2024.

djangocon.us

PSF News: White House recommends use of memory-safe languages like Python

The White House has recommended the use of memory-safe programming languages like Python.

blogspot.com

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 28 pull requests merged into Django by 16 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Erin Kelly, AlexCLeduc, d9pouces, and Emmanuel Sandjio for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Exciting news in Django 5.1:

The admin UI has a new feature enabling users to set unusable passwords via a checkbox named "Allow login", toggled on by default.
cached_db.SessionStore now logs failures when saving content exceeding the cache backend's limit, preventing request crashes from that subsequent session.
Registering URL converters with same name is deprecated in favor of enforcing uniqueness on custom path converters.

Not enough? There's some pretty cool stuff packed in 5.0 too:

First-time contributor AlexCLeduc fixed a bug by adding a definitive chunk_size for the queryset iterator during database serialization, enhancing the handling of models utilizing base managers with prefetch_related().

Django Newsletter

Articles

Multilingual Support In Django

⭐ This is an excellent demo and walkthrough of Django's internationalization support and what it means to add multilingual support for your application. 💯

scribe.rip

Python's UV tool is actually pretty good

Jeff shared his notes on how to get UV working with his workflows. UV is the new Python tool, billed as a faster pip and pip-tools replacement.

webology.dev

How to dockerize a Django, Preact, and PostgreSQL Application

A walk through setting up Django and Docker app that uses PostgreSQL and Preact.

honeybadger.io

The simplest way to add a Django worker (Using AWS Chalice)

One way to develop and deploy a serverless function for Django.

photondesigner.com

Django: show me the SQL

Here are seven different ways of inspecting the SQL generated by the ORM of Django.

github.io

ARCHITECTURE.md

If your project doesn't have an ARCHITECTURE.md you might consider it to help bridge the knowledge gap between new and seasoned maintainers.

github.io

Events

PyCon US 2024 Schedule Launch. Introducing our Keynote Speakers

PyCon US launched its scheduled keynote speakers this week. There are several Django-friendly talks and friends speaking this year.

blogspot.com

Local Django Communities

The DSF is now organizing a list of Local Django Communities on their website.

djangoproject.com

Tutorials

Getting Started with Django

A comprehensive introduction to Django highlighting architecture, project structure, models, views, URLs, and templates.

learndjango.com

DjangoCon Videos

DjangoCon US 2023 - Introduction to GitHub Actions: Understanding Key Terms and Building Your First

Paul from Platform.sh covers the widely popular tool, GitHub Actions, and how to integrate it with a Django app.

youtu.be

DjangoCon US 2023 - Let's build a BeeWare app that uses Django

BeeWare is a framework that let users of all skill levels develop applications with native user interfaces. It is very powerful to extend the already existing Django application to multiple devices. In this talk, we will demo building a simple Beeware app with a Django backend.

youtu.be

DjangoCon US 2023 - Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL

A case study of a single-application ETL system to scrape and enrich complex nested data and then expose it via GraphQL and Discord. It will dive into how to use these various async-based libraries together in a small footprint app.

youtu.be