Are you getting the most out of the Django framework? It’s a powerful web framework if you’re not interested in reinventing the wheel. Django includes a useful template system with inheritance for composing reusable HTML. This week on the show, we have previous guest and Real Python author Christopher Trudeau to talk about his recent articles and courses about Django.

Christopher explains how Django templates help you avoid rewriting large portions of HTML for your web applications. His first article covers the built-in tags and filters provided by the framework. The second one dives into how customize and implement your own filters and tags. Christopher also talks about his process for choosing topics for articles and courses.

We start the episode by covering a recent article by CPython Developer in Residence, Łukasz Langa. We talked in a previous episode about his plan to study where all the Python core developer activity goes. He’s gathered several years of GitHub data, and we discuss the post.

Course Spotlight: Building With Django REST Framework

This course will get you ready to build with Django REST Framework. The Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create REST interfaces.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:03 – Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity
00:07:23 – Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
00:08:36 – Django background
00:11:28 Flask vs Django
00:14:37 – Django Templates: Built-In Tags and Filters
00:25:26 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith
00:26:12 – Django Templates: Implementing Custom Tags and Filters
00:32:54 – Django Rest Framework - video course
00:42:09 – Video Course Spotlight
00:43:16 – What goes into picking an article to turn into a course?
00:53:18 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
00:57:00 – Support Django development by donating to the Django Software Foundation
01:00:55 – Thanks and goodbye

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