April 9, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added the first form to collect data in the onboarding flow. We used a CreateView and defined all the fields that are needed in the HTML form. I started by filling in the HTML form structure of the page. Once the dummy version was in place, we changed from a TemplateView to a CreateView and began fixing each configuration error that the new view type reported as missing like missing a model field declaration.
Read MoreApril 8, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Django has a powerful built-in translations framework that we discuss with Andrew Knight. Topics include internationalization vs localization, common gotchas, Django’s internal translations team, and more.
Read MoreApril 8, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
On this episode, we look at templates, the primary tool that Django provides to build user interfaces in your Django app. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the previous episode, we talked about views and how views handle requests to create HTTP responses for users. Set Up Templates are static files that Django will fill in with data. In order to use those files, we must instruct Django on where to find them.
Read MoreApril 4, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]
Learn how to create a Django project and a Django application in this quick-start tutorial.
Read MoreApril 4, 2020 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]
Use python-json-logger package to output JSON log with Django
Read MoreApril 2, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we stepped from the welcome onboarding page to the first interactive page in the flow. I extracted the common banner for each of the templates and customized it for each of the steps in the process. The first thing we did was create a button on the starting page. The button connects the welcome page to the second step in the flow where the app will ask for information about the user’s school year.
Read MoreApril 2, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the previous Understand Django article, we looked at the fundamentals of using views in Django. This article will focus on templates. Templates are your primary tool in a Django project for generating a user interface. With templates, you’ll be able to build the pages that users will see when they visit your web app. Let’s see how templates hook into views and what features Django provides with its template system.
Read MoreApril 1, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Will recently launched a new Django site, LearnDjango.com. We discuss architecting new projects, prototypes vs production, payments, performance, and more.
Read MoreMarch 26, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we worked on the progress element that will display in every step of the onboarding flow. I added some labels and styled the banner using Tailwind CSS. At the end of the stream, we boxed in the shape of the welcome page with some placeholder elements. The very first thing I did was insert a top bar that was unstyled to the top of the welcome page. We added some placeholder text for each of the steps in the onboarding flow.
Read MoreMarch 25, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Sage was a 2019 Google Summer of Code student and contributed cross-db JSONField support coming in Django 3.1. We discuss his background in programming and advice for future student contributors.
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