How to do a basic CRUD REST API with an ORM-Less Django

The other day had a client that needed to build a very basic web service and the only requirement that I had was that this would needed to be done on top of an existing database and table.

Current DateTime for default value in a Model? Use callables

So. Let’s say that you have:

# app/models.py
from django.db import models
from datetime import datetime

class Book(models.Model):
  name = models.CharField(max_length=128)…

A primer on sending email thru Django

This is not an in-depth article on how to send emails but rather a starting point. But if you are building a website in Django and you need such website to start sending, let’s say, marketing emails today, this article is for you.

What to do with passwords and secrets?

What should we do with all the secret stuff that we have in our code?

Meaning, Django’s SECRET_KEY setting, various user and password credentials (EMAIL, DATABASE, …), API KEYs to 3rd party REST API, so on…

Adding User Login to your django site

This is the first part of a series on customizing your django site and understanding the authentication middleware of Django.

In this first example we are going to explain how to add login capabilities to your already existing web app…