Questions tagged [django]
Django is an open source server-side web application framework, written in Python. It is designed to reduce the effort required to create complex data-driven websites and web applications, with a special focus on less code, no-redundancy and being more explicit than implicit.
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How to maintain state for a turn-based game in django
I am using django to develop a turn based chess variant. I just finished using django-channels to create a lobby and match 2 players together. Now, I need to make them play each other and I'm thinking ...
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Is storing access token in private data, refresh token in http-only cookie safe?
Backend: Django / Django Rest Framework, would be hosted at GCP k8s
Frontend: Angular, would be hosted at some CDN e.g Vercel
Authentication: JWT (https://github.com/jazzband/djangorestframework-...
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How to break a bloated decorator into smaller parts in Django?
In a project I am doing, I have to perform a lot of repetitive checks at the beginning of each API end point. As the amount of duplicate code started to grow, I thought of using a decorator to wrap ...
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Django URL pattern style advice
(!) This is a crosspost, my post did not fit into Code Review.
I am building an e-commerce website and I want to serve my products through an API.
Each Product has a Product ID and some variants (e.g ...
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Django: Is there a reason to separate api calls into their own url endpoints?
I started a project awhile back and have made a lot of progress since then. In the beginning I didn't think much about restful architecture and how I'd serve data to the frontend. Now, however, it ...
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In (Django) web application should if-else logic be at a high level (view) or a low level (template)?
Given a (Django) web application following the model-template-view model, when returning a template based on an object should if-else logic be in the view or the template?
The API endpoint (view) gets ...
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How to store multiple-users authorization tokens from a single service if I can't use a persistent storage?
I'm new to "web development" so I don't know much about ways to store data.
I'm trying to build a web app using Python-Django which accesses private data from multiple accounts. The data ...
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Optimal method of storing image thumbnails
I'm working on an application with a database containing many recipes. The API is written in Django (with Django REST Framework) and frontend in React.Each recipe is assigned a high-quality image. In ...
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Should I Add Integration Or Unit Tests To Django Views
I am currently exploring adding unit tests to my Django REST Framework project. I totally understand adding unit tests for other components of the app like models. However, I'm stuck at testing views. ...
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Best way to design multiple paginations in a REST API
Let's suppose that I have a model named Collection. I can create a collection, this collection have two important fields: shared_with_company, shared_list.
currently I have an endpoint: /collections
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What is the best way to design calls of post and comments in a rest api?
So, currently I have two models: Post and Comment. Where a post can have multiple comments.
I have an endpoint named Posts and an endpoint named Comments that is called to retrieve comments of a post.
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How to Properly Design an API Prefetch System
I'm creating an API for a web service. There are a couple of endpoints in this API that require some time (lets say +5min) to compute, so I'm creating a prefetch system that will call in the ...
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Creating a Django web-app with Sage 200 Database
I have been asked to create a Django/Python web app that creates web-based, .pdf and excel reports from a Sage Evolution database. While the sage front-end is still being used. My client essentially ...
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Fetch the most recently updated records in a database across multiple tables in a performant manner
I have an Angular + Django web application in which Django functions as my backend.
In this web application, I have 12 different tables about articles, each table representing a different kind of ...
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Appointments using time slots
I would like to create a dynamic appointment system between teacher and student to easily allow them to make an appointment.
In this system, teachers select their 30 minutes time slot availabilities ...
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Appointments Booking Using Slots
I'm looking for an efficient way to create appointments between teachers and students.
I want teacher to be able of make their students know their availabilities : For example, A Teacher writes on the ...
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Is microservice approach always best fit for ETL processes?
In our project we are using Django and Django Rest Framework as main application to get/query the data from database and send it to the frontend. Those endpoints are very fast as they should be. ...
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Reading a large CSV file and then loading data to a DB
I have a Django application of 2 GB running and I need to receive a CSV file of more than 1 GB, read it and load the data to a PostgreSQL DB in IBM Cloud. The problem is that if I receive the file, it ...
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Distributing Web application to multiple customers
I am building an app (stack is Python/Django/React and DB is PGSQL) that is supposed to be used internally in companies to track their work, assign people to different tasks, throw some statistic data,...
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Communication between two apps
I am thinking of creating two applications, one of which (App 1) will be in Django (DRF) and other (App 2)might be Django but might be another more lightweight framework (maybe Flask or plain Django ...
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Best Practice: Should cascading updates be handled by the frontend or the REST API?
I am designing a timesheet app for logging user tasks using React for frontend and Django REST Framework for backend. The database is PostgreSQL and I have a table for recording the tasks with 4 ...
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What's the right way to handle authentication of users across 2 web applications
There are 2 independently functioning web applications. Web-app1: (Flutter+Django+Postgres). Web-app2: (Angular+Spring+Postgres). Each of the web-apps has its own user database and are functioning ...
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Is it good practice to use the Django template system and/or its admin site for commercial applications?
As a beginner to web applications and front end stuff, I'm really confused about if it's good practice to use the Django template system and its admin interface in commercial applications.
As far as I ...
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Best route for multiple user roles with toggleable permissions with React and Django Rest Framework
What is the best way to create dynamic user roles that can have toggleable permissions?
I am currently creating my very first website which has a react front end with redux toolkit and redux saga and ...
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Use 1 to many relationship on same model or split it into two different models?
I'm building a forum application using the Django web framework but I'm not sure how to design the entity relationship diagram when it comes to the Post model. Since one Post can have many replies, ...
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How should I structure my database entities with invites and recipients for e-signing web app?
I am interested in implementing the following requirements for my e-signature web application.
A user can create a new signing contract. That contract can include multiple users to sign. The contract ...
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What makes LINQ (C#) unique compared to another DSL such as Django query syntax?
My question to the community is this:
What makes C#'s LINQ Unique from other query language in other languages and frameworks, or does it not have anything to make it unique at this point?
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Best approach for developing a stateful computation-heavy application with a rest-api interface using python?
I want to develop an end-to-end machine learning application where data will be in GPU-memory and computations will run on the GPU. A stateless RESTfull service with a database is not desirable since ...
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Understanding the importance of Gunicorn and Nginx for Django web development
I'm entirely uninitiated to the world of web development, and only have a tentative grasp on Django and web development through the test server it works through.
From the guide I'm reading, the author ...
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How to efficiently communicate with Raspberry Pi using Django/Python
I have a raspberry pi that is sending an https request to my Django application every 2 seconds. The request is essentially asking the application 'Has a user requested data from me?'
My Django ...
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Email Notifications Implementation - Web Application
Good day,
I'm having difficulty structuring how I should set up email notifications for a Django app that I built.
As I'm seeing an increase of users in the app, it increases the occurrence of email ...
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REST API Testing best strategy
I'm currently developing a personal project using Django REST + React and as it grows more complex, I want to add unit testing to ensure that changes don't affect previous functionality. However, I'm ...
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Keeping JSON in database
I'm trying to create web app(flask or django-rest) that would scrape some data and save it to JSON so that it can be viewed in the frontend (VueJS).
I'm wondering if it is better to save the scraped ...
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Can I manage thousands of concurrent connections with a non-Node stack?
I'm developing a social network with Django (Python) + Postgres SQL. My site will have a chat feature so that users can communicate to each other in real-time, and the communication will be only from ...
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Scraper in separate repo from visualization component?
Let me explain my thoughts about architecture of the project I'm working on.
The project code repository consist of:
Scrapy component - of course it serves to scrape data, process it and calculate ...
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Sync local database with remote
My client has a business which work mostly in remote areas where internet felicity is limited, We have a central database and the branches in remote areas need to connect to the central database.
We ...
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Is Python's Django WebFramework good to design Expert System as a Web App?
I hope everyone is good. Well, I am at the end of my degree BS (Software Engineering), and in the third Phase of my Final Year Project named as 'Test Phase'.
My Project is to build an Expert System ...
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Should a REST API be used when a websocket is already open?
Background: I was working on a web-socket application integrated into a more conventional http request based website that uses REST APIs.
Task: I need to retrieve user history from the database for ...
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Double way parent child relationship in Django
I am building an app to register and update children information, this information is to be provided by their tutors. Every child can have multiple tutors, and a tutor can be a tutor for multiple ...
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Architecture to populate graphs from real-time data
I'm developing an application where graphs need to be populated from realtime data.
The Real-Time data comes from a Kafka Queue.
How should I send this real-time data to the front-end which is in ...
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Using Django Sessions when views are accessed by API
I'm making an app which is a Django backend and a React frontend (being developed by someone else). The plan currently is to fully decouple the two and have them communicate over API. However, I would ...
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Hypertext Application Language grouping items in a collection
For the purposes of this question I can use an example document straight from the HAL spec, since my problem is very similar:
{
"_links": {
"self": { "href": &...
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Why does the Django Rest Framework encourage separating Model, Serializer and Views for the same object across multiple files?
Summary: Why shouldn't I put model, serializer and view classes for the same object in the same file in my Django Rest Framework application?
I'm building an application using the Django Rest ...
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Why do people keep reusing superclass names in their subclasses?
In my project, I found one of the project's classes reusing the same name as an official one.
For example:
from django.db import models
class Model(models.Model):
class Meta:
abstract =...
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Access control to Django App running on private server
I am a self-learning programmer (with a fair share of python knowledge), and currently a company asked to develop a simple application so that they can track employee expenses (and I thought of using ...
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Should custom Django Admin be separate from client endpoints?
I am currently in the process of creating a Django REST framework project for a client server web app. I would like to ask the following:
Should I write a custom admin if I want my app to be ...
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Use model instance to access model's manager 'objects'
In the Django documentation it's mentioned that Django managers are accessible only via model classes rather than model instances to enforce table and record level operations. What are table and ...
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How should I update non-maintained database tables between production and development?
I'm working on a Django web application (with a mySQL back-end) that uses non-maintained tables(tables not modified by the web app). However, I have two copies of the data tables (one for production ...
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How can we make a UML diagram (or something similar) for a project which doesn't contains classes (like non object oriented)?
I am working on a python project and I didn't use classes but created different modules and added functions in them.
Now I need to draw a diagram to describe the project/application for a paper. I ...
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Url pattern for making a 'like' with a REST API
I have an API route as so:
GET /api/item/like
Which makes a like object between the logged in user and item object, and it works fine.
Is this the correct way to have a user 'like' an object? Or ...
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