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Storing arbitrarily complex Boolean queries (think Elasticsearch's query syntqx). While this could be done in SQL tables, there are no gains with referential intregity and while th…

I made a webapp called "Disqors" ( https://www.disqors.com/latest ). It's backend largely runs on Django. I connect online articles into discussion graphs and intersperse the top t…

Hi, I wanted to share a web app I made to keep up to date on the most interesting discussions among political/social/economic commentators. I connect online articles into discussio…

There is a package for DRF that adds automatic validation from type annotations: https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-typed-views (disclaimer: I'm the author) Regarding other commentar…

Huge thanks Angular team. A few years ago, my team desperately needed to pick and run with a frontend framework. After a couple months to learn the Angular fundamentals, we haven't…

Postgres, Django (with Rest Framework) and TypeScript/Angular.

I wrote a package that allows use of type annotations for validation/serialization in Django Rest Framework: https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-typed-views (Partly inspired by FastAP…

Django Rest Framework, Postgresql and Redis. RQ for background jobs.

Very cool! Yeah, it seems like web frameworks could do more in terms of linking up HTTP contracts with the arguments to the controller/view/whatever. Though, sometimes you need a l…

I've followed GraphQL from a distance. Besides the typing part (which it seems like you can get from OpenAPI to some extent), the other big benefit seems to be being able to cater …

Cool, I've added the "Show HN:" prefix. Yeah, probably most useful for API view functions, since ViewSets often handle the CRUD endpoints automatically.

I wanted wanted to share a package I made to enable use of type annotations for automatic validation/sanitization in Django REST Framework. I've borrowed ideas from the original AP…

I wrote this package to provide model lifecycle hooks (similar to Rails callbacks) because I didn't like the frequency that my codebase was overriding __init__(): https://github.co…

I wanted to share a Django REST package for permissions/access control: https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-access-policy There are some other great packages out there for permissions…

I second this. Expose your backend with DRF ( https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ ). Once you get over initial learning curve, you'll have an extremely powerful and flexible lib…

Cool :) Yeah, my team hasn't found many cases where signals are preferable to overridding save(). The implementation of @hook is really just a wrapper around that approach - with t…

Hey all - Just wanted to share a little package I made to add lifecycle event hooks to Django models. I often find this style of hooking into events easier to reason about than Dja…

Django with Django REST Framework. Postgres for DB, Redis for caching. RQ/Django RQ for background tasks. OpenAPI for API documentation.