Django Through The Years

A talk I gave at DjangoCon US 2022.

Transcript

1. THROUGH THE YEARS ANDREW GODWIN // @andrewgodwin DJANGO
2. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Hi, I’m Andrew Godwin • Principal Engineer at Astronomer (w/on Airflow) • Django Migrations, Channels & Async • Doing odd things with Django since 2006
3. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin I love a nice, relaxing conference Sitting back, chatting to people, doing a panel tomorrow
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6. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin FOR FUN AND MAYBE PROFIT CNC Machining
7. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin AND WHY BUILDING THEM IS HARD CAMPER VANS
8. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin AND HOW CUTE THEY ARE MY CATS
9. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin I've been using Django since 2006 Yes, that is almost half my life now. Don't remind me.
10. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin I've been attending DjangoCon since 2008 That first one was a transformative experience in my life!
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12. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Schema Evolution Panel, 2008
13. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Django was different back then… Here's some highlights from the 1.0 release, right before DjangoCon 2008
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18. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Cal Henderson's "Why I Hate Django"
19. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin No multiple databases Dumb SQL generation Cookie-based sessions No good debugging tools No migration system Not smug enough
20. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin No multiple databases Dumb SQL generation Cookie-based sessions No good debugging tools No migration system Not smug enough
21. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin No multiple databases Dumb SQL generation Cookie-based sessions No good debugging tools No migration system Not smug enough
22. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin South (Because birds migrate south in the winter) (It takes some people years and years to realise this)
23. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin https://aeracode.org/speaking/
24. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin https://aeracode.org/speaking/
25. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Schema Evolution Panel, September 2008
26. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Schema Evolution Panel, September 2008
27. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Schema Evolution Panel, September 2008
28. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Designing Django's Migrations, April 2014
29. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Designing Django's Migrations, April 2014
30. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Designing Django's Migrations, April 2014
31. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Designing Django's Migrations, April 2014
32. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Migrations Under The Hood, November 2014
33. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Migrations Under The Hood, November 2014
34. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Migrations Under The Hood, November 2014
35. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Migrations Under The Hood, November 2014
36. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Migrations Under The Hood, November 2014
37. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Now, it Just Works™ (I have to use Alembic at work right now and I'm missing Django)
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39. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Django is "Boring Software" And I mean this in the nicest way possible
40. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin The Web went all-in on SPAs But it seems that wasn't the right choice for everything…
41. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin What is Django? Is it complete? Do we have a goal?
42. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin APIs rule the Earth Ideally just one set for all your apps
43. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Django Rest Framework is good… …but I think FastAPI and Pydantic have some nice ideas too
44. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin HTMX shows us a different way (I've tried, I'm just not a React/Vue/etc. person)
45. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin <form id="print-form" action="." method="post" hx-post="." hx-swap="outerHTML" hx-trigger="change"> {% csrf_token %} {{ form|crispy }} <input type="submit" value="Next Step"> </form>
46. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin def create_print(request): if request.method == "POST": form = PrintForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): if not request.htmx: # Do stuff else: form = PrintForm() if request.htmx: return render(request, "create/_print_form.html", {"form": form}) else: return render(request, "create/print.html", {"form": form})
47. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin So what can Django become? Is there a singular goal?
48. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin What do today's developers need? What do we aim for? Who knows best?
49. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin First-party API framework Inspired by DRF, FastAPI and others HTMX templating and form handling Doesn't have to be first-party, already some plugins Separately-useable ORM? I literally first heard this idea at DjangoCon in 2008
50. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin But that's just what I want Django's best when we all work together and balance needs
51. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Big features are driven by individuals They need someone to take the wheel and work to a vision
52. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin You can inspire our future. And plenty of us are here to help out.
53. Thanks! Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin // aeracode.org