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This book club is for Boost Your Django DX (Developer Experience) by Adam Johnson, a member of the Django Technical Board and author of django-mysql (and many, many other repos). His previous book was Speed Up Your Django Tests.
This book has very discrete chapters, so I don’t think it makes sense to do them in a particular order. Instead, we’ll just pick one chapter for a given week for discussion. More detailed descriptions are in the details dropdown below the table.
Chapter Descriptions
Origin
Opening notes, a description of the included examples, acknowledgements, changelog.
Documentation
Tools to get you to the right documentation, quicker. Covers DevDocs, DuckDuckGo, Bonus Django Documentation Sites, Wget, and some miscellaneous tips.
Virtual Environments and Dependencies
Manage environments, and the dependencies within, correctly and easily. Covers venv, virtualenv, pip-tools, pip-lock, recommended practices for dependency management, and Python’s development mode.
Python Shell
Enhance your Python command line experience. Covers IPython and django-read-only.
Development Server
Make Django’s runserver
better. Covers django-debug-toolbar, Watchman, django-browser-reload, and Rich.
Code Quality Tools
The key tools to improve your code quality. Covers EditorConfig, pre-commit, Black, isort, and Flake8.
Further Code Quality Tools
Many extra tools useful for Django development. Covers pyupgrade, django-upgrade, pre-commit-hooks, reorder_python_imports, curlylint, DjHTML, Mypy (barely!), Prettier, ESLint, and Shellcheck.
Build Your Own Tools
How to make your own code quality tools. Covers pre-commit’s virtual languages, how to write and test a Flake8 plugin, and how to write a pre-commit-compatible command line tool.
Settings
Tips and patterns for managing Django’s settings file. Covers structuring your settings, a template, some patterns to avoid, and testing settings files.
Models and Migrations
Tips and tools for managing your data. Covers writing a management command to seed your development database, generating data with Factory Boy, migration safeguard practices, and django-linear-migrations.
System Checks
Make the most of Django’s built-in runtime code quality framework. Covers how system checks work, how to write and test your own checks, and django-version-checks.
Terminus
Closing notes with links to further reading, including many things that didn't make it into the book.
Schedule