TL;DR: if your AUTH_USER_MODEL setting is correct, the most likely cause for this exception is that an exception is raised during import of the model.py containing your custom user class. I just encountered an exception that had me scratching my head for a minute or two. Here is the relevant part for the stack trace: […]
There is a myth out there on the Internet, a myth that needs to be busted. It’s the idea that Django is too complicated. And because it is too complicated, it is too difficult to learn for beginners and also unsuited for small applications or microservices. Where does this idea come from? I’m not 100% […]
In my last article, I explained the new approach in Django 2.0 to define URL patterns and specifically how to capture URL parameter. In this article, we will have a closer look at Django path converters, the bit you can optionally put before the colon in a URL parameter definition. Here are some examples: Path […]
Django 2.0 introduced a new way to define URLs, which greatly simplifies how parameters are captured. In earlier versions of Django, you had to use the url() method and pass a regular expressions with named capturing groups to capture URL parameters. url(r’^posts/(?P<post_id>[0-9]+)/$’, post_detail_view) In Django 2.0, you use the path() method with path converters to […]
Want to attend DjangoCon Europe 2018? I mean who wouldn’t! Three days of great talks on your favorite web framework and two days of sprints and tutorials. All of that in the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany. If you don’t have a ticket yet, I have some bad news and some good news: The bad […]
Django comes with a powerful template language. The Django tutorial only scratches the surface of Django’s templating capabilities and doesn’t get to one of the most powerful features: template inheritance. In this article, I will show you how to use the template tags {% block %} and {% extends %} to avoid repeating the same […]
One of the most common requirements for a web application is to have user accounts: Users should have accounts and they should be able to log in and log out. This is called user authentication and is supported by Django out of the box. In this article, we will add user authentication to the polls […]
Have you completed the Django tutorial and wonder what’s next? Here are 5 topics worth diving into: Making your application less ugly The design of the application you build in the Django tutorial is quite… minimal. If you have some design skills, you might want to create your own look. Learn more about Django templates, […]
Are you stuck in the Django tutorial? Compare your code to this complete and tested solution of the Django tutorial on GitHub. I have worked through the tutorial and made a commit after each change, so you can not only look at the final outcome but also at each individual step along the way! The […]
This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. Today, we will look at an essential building block for running a secure website: HTTPS. We won’t go into the technical details of the protocol itself, but look at some security measures around HTTPS you should take to keep your […]