Django is a Python-based web framework designed to alleviate the many pain points developers encounter when building modern web applications. It features an easy to follow MTV (model, template, view) architecture, a modern database relationship manager, and a powerful administrative system to aid in quickly building out data (which is great for rapid prototyping). Django applications are typically fast, easy to scale, and, when following best practices, accessible to developers of various skill levels.
While Django was released in 2005, its active and welcoming community have diligently kept it competitive with newer frameworks. For example, developers building single-page applications (SPAs) will find Django REST framework (DRF) a comfortable fit and nearly all popular JavaScript frameworks have been used in combination with Django without fail. Once you’ve gotten your feet wet, you’ll find our articles and tutorials an excellent way to expand your skills toward building production-level Django applications.
Further, most of the articles and tutorials in this section are on the more intermediate to advanced side that cover testing, caching, best practices, deployment, containerizing, securing, and implementing Celery.
Michael Herman
This post looks at how to deploy a Django app to Heroku with Docker via the Heroku Container Runtime.
Michael Herman
Quickly add Stripe to accept payments on a Django/Python website.
Jace Medlin
Get started with Django's new asynchronous views
Michael Herman
Deploy a Django app to AWS ECS with Terraform.
Jan Giacomelli
Deploy a Django app to AWS EC2 with Docker and Let's Encrypt.
Jan Giacomelli
Secure a containerized Django app running behind an HTTPS Nginx proxy with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates.
Michael Yin
Making Celery work nicely with Django Database Transactions.
Michael Yin
Automatically retry failed Celery tasks.
Michael Herman
This tutorial details how to configure Django to run on Docker along with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn.
J-O Eriksson
Configure VS Code to debug a Django app running inside of Docker.
Michael Herman
Configure a containerized Django app running on an EC2 instance to send logs to CloudWatch.
J-O Eriksson
In this quick tutorial, we'll show you how to configure PyCharm for debugging a Django app running inside of Docker.
J-O Eriksson
Detailed look at Django's built-in caching options.
Michael Herman
In this tutorial, we'll look at how to configure GitLab CI to continuously deploy a Django and Docker application to AWS EC2.
J-O Eriksson
This post looks at how to manage periodic tasks with Django, Celery, and Docker.
Michael Herman
In this tutorial, we'll look at how to configure GitHub Actions to continuously deploy a Django and Docker application to DigitalOcean.
Jason Parent
In the following tutorial, we walk you through the BDD development cycle by programming an example feature using Django and Aloe.
Michael Herman
In this tutorial, we'll look at how to configure GitLab CI to continuously deploy a Django and Docker application to DigitalOcean.
Michael Herman
This post looks at how to configure Celery to handle long-running tasks in a Django app.
Michael Herman
This post explains step-by-step how to create a custom User model in Django.
Michael Herman
This post looks at how to set up automated performance tests to uncover and prevent inefficient database queries.
Michael Herman
This tutorial shows how to configure Django to load and serve up static and media files, public and private, via an Amazon S3 bucket.
Michael Herman
In this article, we'll look at the best use cases for Django and Flask along with what makes them unique, from an educational and development standpoint.
Michael Herman
This article aims to simplify the process of deploying, maintaining, and scaling a production-grade Django app on Heroku.
Michael Herman
This tutorial looks at how to integrate Stripe Connect into a Django application.
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