Frameworks make developers’ lives easier by offering them a structure for application development. They automate the implementation of common solutions, cutting development time and allowing developers to focus more on application logic instead of routine elements.

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ReactJS is a fantastic frontend framework, and Django is a fantastic backend framework. However, as usual when dealing with anything of more than trivial complexity, it isn’t easy to get the two to place nicely together. It's not like taping a banana to a wall.

Let’s use drf-spectacular to simplify creation of beautiful docs for your Django application according to the OpenAPI Specification version 3. Sounds easy? It wasn’t for me…

A guide on how to create a responsive table inside your web applications using both Django and htmx to create such a system to process your website's data.

How to implement proper reusable clone for Django model instances with related objects.

In this tutorial, you learned how to dockerize and deploy Django applications using Docker, Django, and Heroku.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a press release by Netflix. Just my honest review of tech that helps us binge great content without hassle.

There’s a foundational question that every project starts with: accept the freedom to roll your own solutions along with the burdens that go with it, or take the chance to use sensible defaults that allow you to move quickly, but hide a multitude of decisions and set you on a prescriptive path.

Django and FastAPI are, without a doubt, two of the most well-known and widely used frameworks by Python developers. Let's explore their differences.

Don't waste time! Learn how to install Django and Python quickly with this tutorial!

ReactJS is a fantastic frontend framework, and Django is a fantastic backend framework. However, as usual when dealing with anything of more than trivial complexity, it isn’t easy to get the two to place nicely together. It's not like taping a banana to a wall.

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In this tutorial, we are going to create a nice crispy range slider using django-crispy-forms for an integer filter provided by django-filters.

How to safely remove a column in Django on a production with more than 1 pod

curious about how ORM works! read this tutorial and make one from scratch using python programming language.

I've been using Django for a little less than a year already if I'm not mistaken and I'd like to share the top resources I use when I'm running on a roadblock or if I'm trying to implement something that I haven't implemented yet.

The Django Framework has been a popular choice for web development with Python for many years. And for good reason: it leverages Python's ease of modularity to offer a very flexible solution for a variety of applications.

When solving a problem that requires you to link a user's session data to their actual user object, Postgres comes in handy.

This article is a prequel of sorts to my earlier 110% Complete JWT Authentication with Django & React - 2020 article. That article covers how to get started with JWT authentication in a typical React and Django Rest Framework project, and it does that well enough. There's just one major annoyance with it - I couldn't figure out how to get live reloading working! So for every change made to the frontend, we had to shut down the dev server, rebuild the React bundle, and start it up again. Talk about tedious!

Simple case of deployment Django migration to production in a few steps. This is table/model removal.

Here is a list of the ten highest-ranked Python frameworks on GitHub.

Here I’m assuming you already have your basic Django project setup. And, already know what Celery is? if not, I’ll suggest getting a basic understanding of it here. So let’s just directly jump into the steps.

Learn how to boost your Django REST Framework's performance by solving common issues like N+1 queries, pagination, caching, and more. Get started now!

For those times, when you ought to do things which you don’t want to do.

Learn how to containerize an entire Django project from the ground up, including a Postgres database, Redis cache server, Caddy, and Celery instances.

In this article, we will be discussing the ways to optimize the database for speed in Django applications.

Learning Django-Oscar can be cumbersome. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a brand new Oscar app with a dashboard.

Single Tenant vs Multi-Tenant SaaS application example using Django

If you are looking for the best online courses to learn Django, Flask, and Python web development, then you have come to the right place.

Using Django & BrightData to build a Movie Recommendation Website! With ability to search through data of various rating agencies, Flix-Finder is a must have!

In this post we are going to build a web application which will compare the similarity between two documents. We will learn the very basics of natural language processing (NLP) which is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between computers and humans using the natural language.

Confused between Laravel and Django to learn a backend framework? This article gives a clear perspective of the frameworks and technology.

Use of Bright Data collectors to collect data from any website and extending our previous Django application is the main highlight of this article!

If you are familiar with Stripe, you know how big of a player they are in the online payment processing field.  Their API not only allows programmers to easily create one-time payments for sites such as e-commerce stores, but also provides quick integrations for monthly subscriptions and routing payouts.  If new to Django and Stripe, check out our recent article on integrating one time payments.  Otherwise, let's get into setting up monthly payments with Django and Stripe.

The programming language Python is famous for quite many reasons. It is loved by enterprises, developers, researchers all over the world. Be it enterprise development, machine learning or anything else, Python has more than a few applications in the present-day world. It has not just been able to impress users with its flexibility, ease of understanding, uncomplicated implementation and abundance of libraries, but also its frameworks that developers are falling in love with instantly.

Deciding between Flask vs Django can be easier task when acknowledging the use cases for both frameworks. So, in this article, we define where and what to use.

If you’ve decided to adopt Python for your software development, it’s crucial to know whether Python has a good chance to remain important to the industry in the years ahead.

The Best Front-end frameworks are future-proof and supply the best design solution to the UI experts. There are diverse options in the market for C++ and Java

With ability for updating the static data, this third part truly completes our Movie Recommendation Django App Flix-Finder!

Django is a web app framework based upon Python, but is not a part of Python. Python being open-source language, easy to learn and adapt, has become the programming language of choice for beginners as well as seasoned developers in recent years. Django was created to support web application development, web APIs, web services. Thanks to rising popularity of Python, Django too became a framework of choice for python developers.

Django signals are a powerful tool for executing code based on certain events in your Django application.

This blog post provides an introduction to the Django framework as well as a handpicked list of free resources to learn this framework.

The final goal of this guide is to create a scalable and reproducible setup of the Django Web Application on AWS using Terraform.

Prepare your Heroku-deployed Django application to be closer to production-ready by implementing public & private storage backends for media & static files.

How to deploy Django application to production if there are many instances of your application and a separate process for running migrations.

Django is a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.Using it you can create many cool projects. It was designed to make common web development tasks fast and easy.

Ruby and Python are some of the most commonly used programming languages for web application development. According to the Stack Overflow’s annual survey conducted among 90,000 developers worldwide, Ruby and Python were in the Top 15 most in-demand programming languages in 2019. It’s quite something considering that there are about 700 programming languages in the world!

Trying out a lightweight asynchronous task queue as an alternative to Celery with Django

A golden rule is: “Don’t start a partnership before you plan an exit plan.”

Learn how to optimize images in Django using an easy-to-use ImageCDN. ImageEngine automatically serves your images in next-gen formats on the global CDN.

Deploy Django on Kubernetes in a few clicks without even Dockerizing your application.

It’s been about 6 years since I started working with Django, and through all these years I’ve made some personal customizations in Django’s structure.

A Django CRUD web app tutorial featuring User Authentication, CRUD operations, and Markdown support.

It is time to create another cool project using Django and REST Framework.

The Django template system is available to users (programmers) using the Django framework for creating web applications.

How does defining something as simple as app.route handle HTTP Requests? How does app.run create a server and maintain it?

Welcome to the first post of Django Package Series. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add tagging functionality to your models.

Web development has emerged as a rapidly developing field in the past few years and as the knowledge of various tools and languages used in web development is increasing, so is the number of individuals in this field thereby making a tough competition. Python has emerged as a mightily popular language in almost all fields of Computer Science and there are a large number of in-demand Python frameworks available like Django, Flask that might allow you to get an edge over other Web Developers in the community.

Transactions are how Django manages all the DB operations that it runs. Learn how to best use them and avoid costly mistakes.

This article is for business owners willing to launch their first product. In this material, we will discuss and try to compare two popular backend solutions.

The current software development ecosystem moves fast and it seems older frameworks like Django or Rails becoming absolute, but it is a huge underestimation! Django is one of the unique frameworks that I like to use - first of all because it contains everything in it, with just a few simple configurations.

Example with Django / Python and PostgreSQL.

Sometimes in Django you wish to override a small piece of a template and then refer back to that original template. However, in default Django, once you override that template, you can not refer back to it with the extends tag. This means you have to copy and paste a lot of code you would rather not maintain. So it would be nice if you had an extends tag that worked like:

Optimize your website for lightning-fast speed with caching. Reduce processing overhead and improve response time, and discover the power of caching today.

What comes to a Python developer’s mind when he needs to write an I/O bound application? Of course async. Why? Usually, because it’s a trend. And I’ve seen this

Walking through the process of building a platform leveraging AI to help users practice for interviews; integrating feedback from the first few live user tests

You already know web security is important to keeping hackers and cyber-thieves from accessing sensitive information. So, in this post we are going to check Django security vulnerabilities and how to fix them.

When I was first starting with Django, one of the most challenging obstacles I faced was deploying my application. In this tutorial, I will show you guys how to deploy your Django applications to PythonAnywhere and hopefully help you avoid the pitfalls I made.

Learn to deploy django to production using nginx, gunicorn and cloudflare tunnels.

Django 6.0 introduces native background tasks, template partials, built-in CSP, and key upgrades that modernize the framework for today’s web apps.

Django 3.1 provides support for asynchronous views, allowing developers to make significant performance improvements.

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It was a warm evening in April in the northern plains of India, I was sitting at my desk with a slight discomfort for I could not figure out the solution of a Foobar Level 4 problem because well, my high school was closed ( still is! ).

Are you looking for a comparison and an ultimate guide for Django vs laravel? You got the final destinations with features and benchmarks.

This article is for those who don't read the documentation, and I, who had the Dash app for a few months now, which I never tinkered until last night.

The programming language and the main framework are often crucial for startups. Here is why we think Django is a wise choice.

Learn about the basics of Serverless, Docker and deploying a Django (Python) application to Cloud Run, a serverless offering by Google Cloud Platform

"The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines." This is what Django says and that is actually true indeed.

Now that Django 3.0 ships with ASGI support out of the box, adding Websockets to your Django app requires no extra dependencies. In this post, you'll learn how to handle Websockets with Django by extending the default ASGI application. We'll go over how to handle Websocket connections, send and receive data, and implement the business logic in a sample ASGI application.

Transactions are central to Django apps, but if you put the wrong code in transactions, you may cause an outage!

Google Authentication and Fetching mails from scratch means without using any module which has already set up this authentication process.

Say no to Python/Django!!!

This is the finale in a three-part series on how Django transactions work. I cover how PSQL locks work and map PSQL commands to their locks.

Softformance has published a list of the most popular Django-based websites built with Django web framework. Softformance used to use Plone CMS – Python and Zop

Django is powerful web framework, but with power comes responsibility. In this article, we will cover common mistakes that are even seasoned Django developers make, yet most successful Django projects need to deal with these sooner or later.

I recently revisited three old posts on Django class-based views that I wrote for this blog, updating them to Django 3.0 (you can find them here and noticed once again that the code base uses mixin classes to increase code reuse. I also realised that mixins are not very popular in Python, so I decided to explore them, brushing up my knowledge of the OOP theory in the meanwhile.

Having recently worked with young web developers who were exposed for the first time to proper production infrastructure, I received many questions about the various components that one can find in the architecture of a "Web service". These questions clearly expressed the confusion (and sometimes the frustration) of developers who understand how to create endpoints in a high-level language such as Node.js or Python, but were never introduced to the complexity of what happens between the user's browser and their framework of choice. Most of the time they don't know why the framework itself is there in the first place.

Discover how to create a dynamic photo collection app with Django and Cloudinary. Read about its functionalities, and explore noteworthy features. Fork the app.

if you are tired of copying a custom user model from one project to other ones—use this package. It will do it all for you!

Configuration of production and development settings in Django. Can we read from different databases? What about getting notifications on view exceptions?

The 2020 #Noonies are here! And they are both much greener and much bigger than last year. Among the 2,000+ deserving humans nominated across 5 categories for over 200 award titles, we discovered Aswin Ganesh from India, who’s has been nominated for Hacker Noon's Contributor of the Year in our Functional Programming category. Without further ado, we present to you, our big techy world in 10 questions, from the perspective of Aswin.

Looking for a Flask vs Django comparison? This article compares the two popular Python frameworks for web, apps, APIs, and backend development.

To help you on your learning path, I've compiled an ultimate guide to the best GitHub repositories for learning these technologies.

If you've stumbled upon my article, I assume you are working on a Django project and are wondering how to secure your project information, more importantly, security keys. If so, you've come to the right place as I am about to teach you the best method of doing it.

Confused between Django and Flask? Read out the differences between the two and decide to go with Flask or Django development services.

Follow the quickstart to create a Django application, connect that application to a MongoDB deployment, and interact with the data stored in your database.

This article will show how software development teams can build on-demand environments for dog-food testing, quality review, internal and external demos and oth

Draw some inspiration from the list of topics in this article and start writing about your experience with web development in Django.

Django: Python web framework. MVT pattern. ORM for database. Views handle requests. Templates generate UI. Middleware for request processing. URL routing.

Last year, when Django 3.0 came out there was a lot of buzz in the developer community about how Django 3.0 has support for asynchronous now but what does that mean for most developers? I guess we'll find out.

Learn how to avoid the N+1 problem in Django REST framework serializer. Optimize your app's performance by using JOIN statements to retrieve related data.

We develop a custom product design process that takes UX and UI into account and allows us to build effective software products.

Pre-commit is a simple yet powerful tool that can help you catch these issues before they make it into your codebase. It is a git hook script.

Learn about caching, database optimization, minimizing queries, using CDN, profiling & monitoring, and more. Boost your app's speed and efficiency today!

Do you have an app on Heroku using Postgres? Are you running out of database connections?

Protect your Django app against hackers by utilizing built-in middleware, third-party tools, and coding best practices.

I want to tell you this story because I wasted about 14 hours to realize how to achieve it correctly.

Our team decided to write our own chat for working with GPT4 from OpenAI and other ML/LLM models with the ability to customize for the company’s internal needs.

Learn how Django model managers can simplify your code and make complex queries and model-level operations easier to manage.

Discover how Django Signals can enhance your web development skills. Learn about its benefits, working, and built-in signals.

Django is a framework that lets you ship features at lightning speed.

Django internal utilities are a very powerful tool for automation.

Build a secure anonymous feedback system using Django, Twilio for SMS, Pinata for media uploads, and TailwindCSS for responsive UI. Ensures privacy and secure s

11/1/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!

A Django developer noticed 500 password resets in 3 weeks. They blamed the UI, but the real culprit was a silent database bug. Read the full postmortem.

In this article, we'll create a project that posts about rants using Django and Django Rest Framework.

Struggling with 25k-line Django templates? See how Django 6 inline partials & HTMX replace complex JS trickery with clean, modular, & scalable server-side code.

I built MockMyData.io in 10 weeks - a multi-tenant SaaS that generates mock REST APIs. Here's how I handled subdomains, rate limiting, and Redis caching.

The application will allow users to input multiple pick-up and drop-off locations, calculate the optimal route, and display it on a map.

An open-source IoT platform that uses microcontroller reconfiguration, capability-based peripherals, GraphQL, TimescaleDB, entity component system, and more.

A real case where abnormal ad impression patterns on a Django site nearly caused an ad network ban — and the application-level mitigation that reduced the risk.

Think about helping yourself in the future, or perhaps your colleagues, and make some effort to avoid it beforehand.

AI isn't replacing developers; it's augmenting them. I built a complete, production-ready website with an AI partner.

Learn how to supercharge your Django app with full-text search using Django-Watson. Dive deep into Postgres magic and boost search functionality.

3/3/2025: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!

I have stumble upon this site looking for some solutions for my Django problem, and I loved it. I decided to signup and share my views on technology and apps development. I'm like 5 years experience PHP and JavaScript developer, although in that time I have developed one Angulajs mobile app.

Businesses are looking for ways to develop software that will help receive a product of the highest quality at the same time.

6/14/2024: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage!

Django is a straightforward option to pick up and offers a backend customized according to the users' needs.