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Creating a REST API with Django REST Framework

REST APIs are an industry-standard way for web services to send and receive data. They use HTTP request methods to facilitate the request-response cycle and typically transfer data using JSON, and more rarely - HTML, XML and other formats. In this guide, we will create a REST API in Python...

Naazneen Jatu

Sep 06, 2021

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Creating a REST API in Python with Django

Django is a powerful Python Web Framework used to build secure, scalable web applications rapidly with fewer efforts. It became popular because of its low barrier to entry, and strong community that uses and develops the framework. In this guide, we are going to build a RESTful API using Django...

Naazneen Jatu

Apr 29, 2021·16 min read

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Guide to Using the Django MongoDB Engine with Python

In this article, we will see how to use MongoDB, a non-relational database, with Django, a Python Web Framework. Django is commonly used with PostgreSQL, MariaDB or MySQL, all relational databases, due to it's ORM under the hood. MongoDB, being quite flexible, is commonly paired with lightweight frameworks such as...

Lazar Ristic

Apr 23, 2021·11 min read

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How to Deploy a Django Application to Heroku with Git CLI

Heroku is a cloud platform that provides hosting services. It supports several programming languages including PHP, Node.js, and Python. It is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which allows you to manage website applications while it takes care of your servers, networks, storage and other cloud components. In this article, we'll take a...

Muhammad Hashir Hassan

Nov 11, 2020·8 min read

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Serving Static Files in Python With Django, AWS S3 and WhiteNoise

Websites generally need additional files such as images, CSS, and JavaScript files that are necessary to render complete web pages in a browser. In small projects, we can work our way around by providing absolute paths to our resources or by writing inline CSS and JavaScript functions in the HTML...

Muhammad Hashir Hassan

Oct 05, 2020·8 min read

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Deploying Django Apps to Heroku from GitHub

Heroku is a popular Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to run and deploy applications by availing the infrastructure required in terms of hardware and software. This means that we do not have to invest in the hardware and software needed to expose our applications to end-users and this freedom allows...

Robley Gori

Feb 05, 2020·8 min read

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Deploying Django Applications to AWS EC2 with Docker

In the fast-paced field of web applications, containerization has become not only common but the preferred mode of packaging and delivering web applications. Containers allow us to package our applications and deploy them anywhere without having to reconfigure or adapt our applications to the deployment platform. At the forefront of...

Robley Gori

Jan 08, 2020·11 min read

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Working with Redis in Python with Django

Data is increasingly becoming a valuable commodity in the current era of technology and this necessitates the optimization of storage and access to this data. There are quite a few notable solutions for the storage of data, including Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, which store...

Robley Gori

Dec 20, 2019·12 min read

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Uploading Files to AWS S3 with Python and Django

In the quest to build more interactive websites, we don't only relay information to users but also allow them to upload data of their own. This opens up more opportunities and more ways that our websites can serve the end-users. By allowing users to upload files, we can allow them...

Robley Gori

Oct 15, 2019·10 min read