It's not too hard to get started with either Django or React. Both have great documentation and there are lots of tutorials online. The tricky part is getting them to work together. Many people start with a Django project and then decide that they want to "add React" to it …

There's an awkward point when you're learning Django where you've done the official tutorial and maybe built a simple project, like a to-do list, and now you want to try something a little more advanced. People say that you should "learn by building things", which is good advice, but it …

Python uses snake_case variable naming while JavaScript favours camelCase. When you're buiding an web API with Django then you'll be using both langauges together. How do you keep your styles consistent? You could just use one style for both your frontend and backend, but it looks ugly. Perhaps this is …

So you want to run a Django app using NGINX and Gunicorn. Did you notice that all three of these tools have logging options? You can configure Django logging, Gunicorn logging, and NGINX logging.

You just want to see what's happening in your Django app so that you can fix …

You need your Django project to be portable. It should be quick and easy to start it up on a new laptop. If it isn't portable, then your project is trapped on your machine. If it gets deleted or corrupted, then you've lost all your work! This issue comes up …

Does Django have "bad performance"? The framework is now 15 years old. Is it out of date? Mostly, no. I think that Django's performance is perfectly fine for most use-cases. In this post I'll review different aspects of Django's "performance" as a web framework and discuss how you can decide …

Many beginner programmers find the Django documentation overwhelming.

Let's say you want to learn how to perform a login for a user. Seems like it would be pretty simple: logins are a core feature of Django. If you google for "django login" or search the docs you see a few …

Sometimes you want to write a feature for your Django app that requires a lot of structured data that already exists in production. This happened to me recently: I needed to create a reporting tool for internal business users. The problem was that I didn't have much data in my …

It sucks when you're working on a Django app and all your pages are empty. For example, if you're working on a forum webapp, then all your discussion boards will be empty by default:

Manually creating enough data for your pages to look realistic is a lot of work. Wouldn't …

Sometimes when you're working on a Django app you want a fresh start. You want to nuke all of the data in your local database and start again from scratch. Maybe you ran some migrations that you don't want to keep, or perhaps there's some test data that you want …