AngularJS plus Django: A match made in heaven
I've just finished watching "AngularJS plus Django: A match made in heaven" DjangoCon US 2014 talk by Nina Zakharenko (Video | Slides) and it was quite helpful. Since I'm working with API's and mobile...
View ArticleDjango Uwsgi Nginx 504 Gateway Timeout
I had a long running process (data import) and encountered 504 Gateway Timeout error. I use Nginx / uwsgi pair to serve my Django app. After doing some research it turned out that the problem is in...
View ArticleSaving file field uploads not in MEDIA_ROOT directory
I had a requirement recently to upload files to some kind of a private directory, not accessible via www. Of course, I used Django model's FileField to solve the task, but the problem was in a fact...
View ArticleInstalling libsass (django_libsass) on Mac OS Yosemite
I started playing with wagtail recently (a very promisiing Django CMS) and they use django_libsass to compile their sass into css. Unfortunatelly, if you'll try to install django libsass via PIP on Mac...
View ArticleRunning Django manage.py commands from anywhere
One of the most annoying aspects of developing in Django for me is running manage.py commands: you need to be in the same directory with manage.py file in order to run a command. This is not...
View ArticleNew in Django 1.11: Template-based widget rendering
There's a very interesting change coming with Django 1.11 - Template-based widget rendering.To make customizing widgets easier, form widget rendering is now done using the template system. In older...
View ArticleMake Your Developer's Life Easier By Reducing Number Of Opened Tabs in Pycharm
When coding, I often find myself overwhelmed by a number of opened tabs in my editor. I just seem to have opened every single .py file of a Django project. And it's kinda hard to find a way in this...
View ArticleHow To Get a List Of All User Permissions Available in Django Based Project
Django comes with a simple permissions system. It provides a way to assign permissions to specific users and groups of users. The system adds "change, remove and add" permissions automatically to every...
View ArticleHow To Show Correct List Item Indexes When Using Pagination in Django
In your Django template put something like this:<ul>{% for object in object_list %} <li>{{ forloop.counter0|add:page_obj.start_index }}. {{ object }}</li>{% endfor %}...
View ArticleHow To Exclude node_modules Directory When Running collectstatic Command in...
If you use npm or yarn to install frontend packages inside your Django project, you may notice, that when you run python manage.py collectstatic command, it ends up collecting huge amounts of...
View ArticleMake Django Rest Framework and Axios Work Together Nicely
This is a solution to the problem I encountered while marrying Django Rest Framework powered API and Axios JS HTTP client: Axios issues GET requests with multi-value parameters in a bit different way...
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Make Django Rest Framework and Axios Work Together Nicely
This is a solution to the problem I encountered while marrying Django Rest Framework powered API and Axios JS HTTP client: Axios issues GET requests with multi-value parameters in a bit different way...
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Accessing Model's/Object's Verbose Name in Django Template
Let's say you have a model:fromdjango.dbimportmodelsclassSnippet(models.Model):....classMeta:verbose_name='Snippet'verbose_name_plural='Snippets'And you want to print model's verbose name in a Django...
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Automatic Created and Updated DateTime Fields for Django Models
I'm leaving this to my future self, as I keep forgetting it over and over again.If you want to add "create" and "update" time logging to your model, it's as simple...
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How to Hide And Auto-populate Title Field of a Page in Wagtail CMS
Givenfromdjango.dbimportmodelsfromwagtail.wagtailsnippets.modelsimportregister_snippetclassCountryPage(Page):country=models.ForeignKey('wagtail_simple_countries.Country',blank=False,null=True,on_delete...
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Overriding Field Widgets In Django Doesn't Work. Template Not Found. The...
One day you may want to override a default Django form input widget. Let's say; you'll want to tweak a Date widget, so it has type="date" on it.So you'd go out and do the regular drill:1) Find the...
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Django Filters Problem: How To Display All Results When The Filter Is Not Set
If a view extends django-filter'sFilterView it may look similar to...
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How To Prevent Users From Creating Certain Page Types in Wagtail CMS
Sometimes in Wagtail, we have pages that should only have a single instance in the system. Let's say we have a blog that has an index page driven by BlogIndexPage model. We create it once and want to...
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Make Django's collectstatic command forgiving
Have this ever happened to you? You run a python manage.py collecstatic command, it progresses for some time and then throws an error, something like:ValueError: The file...
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Adding custom filters to Django admin is easy!
I'm building a backend for a scraping tool that has two simple models Website and Page, where Website can have many pages.In a simplified form it looks...
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