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How to Create Custom Django Management Commands August 27, 2018

Django comes with a variety of command line utilities that can be either invoked using django-admin.py or the convenient manage.py script. A nice thing about it is that you can also add your own commands. Those management commands can be very handy when you need to interact with your application via command line using a […]

How to Use Bootstrap 4 Forms With Django August 13, 2018

This is a quick tutorial to get you start with django-crispy-forms and never look back. Crispy-forms is a great application that gives you control over how you render Django forms, without breaking the default behavior. This tutorial is going to be tailored towards Bootstrap 4, but it can also be used with older Bootstrap versions […]

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Highcharts is, in my opinion, one of the best JavaScript libraries to work with data visualization and charts out there. Even though Highcharts is open source, it’s a commercial library. It’s free for use in non-commercial applications though. In this tutorial we are going to explore how to integrate it with a Django project to […]

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