This training picks up where the basics leave off. Participants explore the Django ecosystem in depth — writing unit and integration tests, building dynamic UIs without a JavaScript framework using HTMX, exposing and consuming REST APIs, squeezing performance from the ORM, and deploying Django applications with Docker. The course closes with authentication strategies ranging from Django REST Framework token auth to OAuth and Allauth.

Who is this training for?

Django developers who are comfortable with models, views, templates, and forms and want to go deeper — building production-quality, well-tested, and observable applications.

Agenda

Testing

• Writing unit tests for Django applications
• Integration tests with the Django test client

Dynamic Templates

• Component-based templates with Django Viewcomponents
• HTMX: progressive enhancement and server-driven interactivity

Custom Templates

• Writing custom template filters
• Writing custom template tags
• Context processors
• Tabular data with Django Tables

Models

• Model-level constraints and data integrity

REST APIs

• Serializers with Django REST Framework
• Class-based API views

Performance

• ORM query optimisation: select_related, prefetch_related, annotations
• Raw SQL queries
• Profiling and identifying bottlenecks

Reusability

• Packaging Django functionality as a reusable library

Observability

• Sending transactional emails from Django
• Error notification emails
• Application metrics

Docker

• Container fundamentals
• Containerising a Django application
• Multi-service setups with Docker Compose

External APIs

• Synchronous HTTP calls to external services
• Asynchronous external API integration

Authentication

• Token authentication with Django REST Framework
• OAuth with Django OAuth Toolkit
• Social authentication with Allauth