In this and the next post, I will discuss how to use Django channels to implement “push based” user notification and content update function in a Django framework based application. Unlike all my past posts, I have decided to break it into two parts: the first part is for the…

Imagine upgrading a system from one major version of Python to another. What are the challenges? I would say one of the biggest challenges is to reduce downtime during maintenance. Revert it as fast as we can if something goes wrong. Having been planning system upgrades on many projects with…

I have done many Django related blogs in the past. One thing I have not discussed is how to take a Django project to the production. In this article, I would like to discuss this subject. To deploy a project to a production environment, there are many approaches. First, what…

Django has been one of the core web frameworks for our team for many years. As our Django based web application grows in numbers, one of the obvious problems is the fact that multiple web applications that share the same functionalities. One of the solutions to avoid rebuilding the same…

This blog is quite different from other blogs that I had posted. Instead of talking about a specific technical topic, what I want is to share my experience in solving a particular business problem with AI (or not AI) based solution and the decision that led to the final implementation. …

Django is one of the most popular Python Web framework. It is designed based on the “model-template-view” pattern. In Django, the Model is acting as the interface to the data (Database). As each model is associated with each physical table in database, I start wondering if it’s possible to make…

In the previous article, we’ve went through a basic tutorial on how to use React.js in Django. It mainly focuses on front-end and has little connection to Django view. I know it’s not enough. Here comes the hard way. In this article, we are going to dig into a common…

I’ve been looking for a great front-end library to fit into Django for years. The problem is that UI requirements have been growing so tremendously that the conventional tech stack (Django template engine + Bootstrap + Vanilla JavaScript) does not meet the pace of modern web development anymore. After I…

Summary In this article, I am going to present my approach to design Django Templates in the Django application development. The objective is to keep the UI part of Django application better organized and avoid redundant coding. Django has provided various mechanisms in template engine to help us achieve such goal…