tutorial
How to Use Chart.js with Django

Chart.js is a cool open source JavaScript library that helps you render HTML5 charts. It is responsive and counts with 8 different chart types.
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How to Save Extra Data to a Django REST Framework Serializer

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to pass extra data to your serializer, before saving it to the database.
tutorial
How to Use Date Picker with Django

In this tutorial we are going to explore three date/datetime pickers options that you can easily use in a Django project. We are going to explore how to do it manually first, then how to set up a custom widget and finally how to use a third-party Django app with support to datetime pickers.
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How to Implement Grouped Model Choice Field

The Django forms API have two field types to work with multiple options: ChoiceField
and ModelChoiceField
.
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How to Use JWT Authentication with Django REST Framework

JWT stand for JSON Web Token and it is an authentication strategy used by client/server applications where the client is a Web application using JavaScript and some frontend framework like Angular, React or VueJS.
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Advanced Form Rendering with Django Crispy Forms

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How to Implement Token Authentication using Django REST Framework

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to implement Token-based authentication using Django REST Framework (DRF). The token authentication works by exchanging username and password for a token that will be used in all subsequent requests so to identify the user on the server side.
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Django Authentication Video Tutorial

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How to Create Custom Django Management Commands

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 terminal and it can
also serve as an interface to execute cron jobs. In this tutorial you are going to learn how to code your own commands.