So, I spent a few hours browsing through github repositories and through the internet for a possible way to create a messaging app using django But I can't seem to find any .. The only thing i could find was ways to create chatrooms but nothing about creating a one-to-one convos
Is it possible to do this in django at all?
a simple solution was to add a database to the django-channels and edit the consumer.py file
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Hi everyone I am new to django and could use help building an ERP system with it. Can anyone assist me, i have discord if you are interested in helping. I figured we could communicate better on it. Please help me with django I am going nuts
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One of the first and most important steps of building a web application / service (that uses models) is to identify the needs and features and then implement them on models. You can start by working on your application's models and then the rest of development process will be easier to work on.
I am currently developing my first more complex Web Application and want to ask for directions from more experienced Developers.
First I want to explain the most important requirements.
I want to develop a Web App (no mobile apps or desktop apps) and want to use as much django as possible. Because I am comfortable with the ecosystem right now and don't have that much time to learn something new that is too complex. I am inexperienced in the Javascript World, but I am able to do a little bit of jQuery.
The idea is to have one database and many different Frontends that are branded differently and have different users and administrators. So my current approach is to develop a Backend with Django and use Django Rest Framework to give the specific data to the Frontends via REST. Because I have not that much time to learn a Frontend-Framework I wanted to use another Django instance to use as a Frontend, as I really like the Django Template language. This would mean one Django instance one Frontend, where there would be mainly TemplateViews. The Frontends will be served on different subdomains, while the backend exposes the API Endpoints on the top level domain.
It is not necessary to have a Single Page App. A Normal Website with mainly the normal request/response-cycle is fine.
Do you think this is a possible approach to do things? I am currently thinking about how to use the data in the frontend sites in the best way. As I am familiar with the Django template language I thought about writing a middleware that asks about the user details in every request cycle from the backend. The thought is to use a request.user as normally as possible while getting the data from the backend.
Or is ist better to ask these details via jQuery and Ajax Calls and don't use the django template language very much?
Maybe there is also a way to make different Frontends for the same database without using REST?
Or what would you think about using a database with each frontend, which changes everytime I make a change in the main database in the backend? Although I don't really like this approach due to the possibility of differences in data if I make a mistake.
Hopefully this is not to confusing for you. If there are questions I will answer them happily. Maybe I am also totally on the wrong track. Please don't hesitate to point that out, too.
I thank you very much in advance for your guiding and wish you a nice day.
as per my experience and knowledge, you are almost going towards correct direction.
my recommendation is for making backend rest api Django and django rest framework is the best option however for consuming those api you can look for the angular or react both works very well in terms of consuming API.
Thank you for your input om tripathi.
I think it really does make sense to use the modern js frameworks for consuming a REST API.
I looked a little further into my problem and found multitenancy to fit my requirements perfectly. There are also great plugins and good reads for that use case. Just for others some informations I stumbled upon:
https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/multi-tenancy/
https://www.vinta.com.br/blog/2017/multitenancy-juggling-customer-data-django/
Especially the second link gave me information about different design approaches. For myself I chose to go the way with one database for every Client and then using the site framework from django to seperate data. For the Subdomain resolving I use django-hosts.
Thank you again and have a nice day.
While readthedocs.io offers the possibility to enable Google Analytics for a page by just adding the tracking ID within a project's settings, the same offer does not seem to exists for using Piwik.
I would like to use Piwik for a page that I generate for a Python project using Sphinx and that is hosted on readthedocs.io. I guess one way to enable it would be to add the Piwik tracking code to the page template as mentioned in https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues/199 however I'm not sure how to start with this.
Has someone been able to use Piwki in this configuration or an idea on how to achieve it? Thank you very much for your help!
Modify your theme's template, inserting your Piwik tracking code. My answer to a related question can point you in the right direction.
I have a new job and a huge django project (15 apps, more than 30 loc). It's pretty hard to understand it's architecture from scratch. Are there any techniques to simplify my work in the beginning? sometimes it's even hard to understand where to find a form or a view that I need... thnx in advance.
When I come to this kind of problem I open up a notebook and answer the following:
1. Infrastructure
Server configuration, OS etc
Check out the database type (mysql, postgres, nosql)
External APIS (e.g Facebook Connect)
2. Backend
Write a simple description
Write its input/output from user (try to be thorough; which fields are required and which aren't)
Write its FK and its relation to any other apps (and why)
List down each plugin the app is using. And for what purpose. For example in rails I'd write: 'gem will_paginate - To display guestbook app results on several pages'
3. Frontend
Check out the JS framework
Check the main stylesheet files (for the template)
The main html/haml (etc) files for creating a new template based page.
When you are done doing that. I think you are much more prepared and able go deeper developing/debugging the app. Good luck.
Use this http://packages.python.org/django-extensions/graph_models.html
to generate the Relationship diagrams from the models so that you can visually see how the models are related to each other. This will give you nice idea about the app
1) Try to install the site from scratch. You will find what external apps are needed for the site to run.
2) Reverse engineer. Browse through the site and try to find out what you have to do to change something to that page. Start with the url, look up in urls.py, read the view, check the model. Are there any hints to other processes?
3) Try to write down everything you don't understand, and document the answers for future reference.
I would clone the project so you can mess up endlessly.
Then I would start to reduce the code. "What happens if if just remove this function here?
Also get django debug toolbar:
https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar
A good terminal debugger is also golden, there are many out there, here is an example:
https://github.com/tomchristie/django-pdb
This allow you to halt the code and even inject and mutate parameters in runtime. Just like GDB in C.
If you use FireFox you can install FireBug on it and when you for example submit ajax form you can see at which url send you request after what you can easily find controller which work with this form data. At chrome this utility embedded by default and call by F12 key.
Does anyone know of a django forum plugin that allows each member to have his own forum? If there isn't anything, than what would be the best way to accomplish this with a "regular" forum plugin for Django?
I once created a feature matrix of all Django forum apps I could find. It might be a bit outdated now, though (contributions welcome).
At least django-threadedcomments uses generic foreign keys, so you can attach a message thread to any database object, including users.
Look at DjangoBB.
Yep, the forum app of SCT can be used for this - simply set it up and create multiple "community Groups" (these are similar to vhosts) and map them to subdomains - each community group would have separate forum categories, can have separate templates, separate user permissions, etc. (but they will obviously share the same django users and their profiles) - as an example.. the following websites are all hosted on the same instance:
SCT website
My personal website/blog (the blog is also based on SCTs forum)
ShelfShare Community
Check out diamanda. I'm not sure it does what you need as far as the each user having its forums, but that's probably not too hard to hack on top. Probably as simple as adding a few ForeignKeys into auth.User to the diamanda models. In general django pluggables and djangoapps are good places to look for django stuff that is already written. Also, check out pinax.
I believe the Sphene Community Tools can do this.