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Engineering — Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4) — Smashing Magazine

Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving t

PKPhilip KielyPhilip Kiely·June 25, 2020Engineering
Frontend — Django Highlights: Templating Saves Lines (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Templating Saves Lines (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

Creating front-end code in Django with templating and server-side rendering combines the fine-grained control of handwritten HTML with the clean code and powerful features of generated pages. We explore breaking down a complex webpage into multiple templates, composing those components, and applying tags and filters to refactor a plain HTML page.

PKPhilip KielyPhilip Kiely·April 2, 2020Frontend
Security — Django Highlights: User Models And Authentication (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: User Models And Authentication (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

Django is a framework for developing dynamic websites. While a static website is one that solely presents information, there is no interaction that gets registered to a server. In a static website, the server sends HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to a client and that’s it. More capabilities require a dynamic website, where the server stores information and responds to user interaction beyond just servin

PKPhilip KielyPhilip Kiely·February 6, 2020Security