Python libraries you should be using along with Django

When it comes to backend development in Python, Django is one of the best frameworks you can find. It enables you to do fast development because of the number of features it has and its built-in ORM. Moreover, you can add new functionalities with the help of a wide variety of libraries specifically designed for Django. Here, we are going to discuss some of the important and popular ones.

Features:

Everything is working fine, but as soon as you put the API endpoint in your Javascript application and try to run it, it throws a CORS error.

Unfortunately, Django doesn’t have anything in-built for this. django-cors-headers library addresses this issue and is really easy to add to your Django app. Here’s how you can do this:

Install using pip

In your settings.py file, change the following configurations

Another good thing about this is it integrates well with the Django rest framework, which comes in pretty handy.

Here’s a glimpse of how to use filtersets. You can explore more in the official documentation.

So, you are done developing an app and everything is working well from your local machine. It’s time to deploy your application on the server(s).

In your settings.py file, you might have defined paths for static and media files such as the CSS and Javascript files, icons, and Images/files shown in the app.

You’ll want to store all those files in a location independent of the servers’ lifecycle, similar to a database so that you don’t lose this data if a server goes down. It also helps data consistency on your web application if you have multiple servers running in the backend.

django-storages comes to the rescue. It supports several cloud providers such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Storage among others.

I hope this helped you in some way. If you made it through here, consider following for more bits like this.

Happy Coding… :)

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