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Django proxy models let you override a model's behaviour — managers, default ordering, admin screens and methods — while sharing the parent's database...

A 2026 guide to passwordless authentication in Django 5.x: email magic links and OTP using django.core.signing, a custom auth backend, and login(), pl...

A DRF router auto-generates URL patterns from a ViewSet, mapping list, detail, and @action endpoints to the right verbs. Learn SimpleRouter vs Default...

django-rest-swagger is deprecated and archived. In 2026, document Django REST Framework APIs with OpenAPI 3 using drf-spectacular, which generates an ...

jsPDF turns an HTML element into a downloadable PDF entirely in the browser. This 2026 guide covers the modern ESM setup, the html2canvas multi-page f...

A practical 2026 guide to converting XML to JSON in Python with xmltodict: parse XML into a dict, serialize with json.dumps(), handle attributes and n...

A practical, step-by-step guide to adding custom managers in Django 5.x — subclass models.Manager, override get_queryset(), build chainable filters wi...

A 2026 step-by-step guide to deploying a Django app on Heroku — Procfile, gunicorn, WhiteNoise, dj-database-url and Postgres — plus why the free tier ...

Django conditional expressions let you run SQL CASE/WHEN logic inside the ORM. Learn Case, When, Q, F, Value, Coalesce, conditional aggregation and Ca...

Function-based and class-based views both have a place in Django. This guide shows when migrating to generic CBVs like ListView and CreateView pays of...

A practical 2026 guide to Django unit testing: test forms and views with Django's built-in TestCase and test Client, the modern pytest-django workflow...

The Django Template Language (DTL) is Django's syntax for HTML templates. This beginner's guide covers variables and dot lookups, tags vs filters, aut...