Any developer who has worked with Django in a professional capacity must have had some interaction with signals and signal handlers to achieve great things. The signal dispatcher provided by Django is a mysterious utility. Designed and developed on the Observer Design Pattern, the signals connect decoupled applications of a…

Possible solutions: Unsafe but easy way: Disable CSRF verification by adding @csrf_exempt decorator to the view from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt # ...@csrf_exempt def my_view(request): # ... 2. Safe way: Fetch the CSRF token with additional Postman script and use it later Sources: https://avilpage.com/2019/02/django-tips-csrf-token-postman-curl.html 1) Add the following line to Tests…

Webhooks (aka HTTP callbacks) are a fantastic way to connect all the various services we as developers depend on now. Unfortunately, I haven’t see a great walk-thru of how to make a HTTP callback receiver/consumer. …

Building a REST API in Django is so super easy. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps to get your first API up and running. (This post is part of a series where I teach how to deploy a React front end on a Django back end. However, nothing…

Persian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages in the world. It’s soft-sounding, romantic and full of passion. For Iranians, poetry plays a significant part in their culture, and they study it as part of the curriculum from a young age at school. …

Let’s talk about context processors and see how you can use them effectively in your Django projects. “A context processor has a simple interface: it’s a Python function that takes one argument, an HttpRequest object, and returns a dictionary that gets added to the template context. …

The Django web framework consists of multiple modules or packages that allow developers to quickly write the application without having to engineer an app’s backend from scratch. Django is considered a full-stack web framework because it combines a database, application server, template engine, authentication modules and dispatcher to create a…

YOLOv3 is the latest variant of a popular object detection algorithm YOLO — You Only Look Once. The published model recognizes 80 different objects in images and videos, but most importantly it is super fast and nearly as accurate as Single Shot MultiBox (SSD). Starting with OpenCV, you can easily…

The Django’s built-in authentication system is great. For the most part we can use it out-of-the-box, saving a lot of development and testing effort. It fits most of the use cases and is very safe. But sometimes we need to do some fine adjustment so to fit our Web application. …