Django Weekly: Django Weekly Issue 23 - Testing, webhooks and more

I’m here to highlight some points and tools from one of the interesting talks by Ana Balica - Testing in Django. But more than that, I want to first start by talking about Tests.

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As we begin 2017, many of us are reflecting on how to maintain safe, inclusive spaces within our communities. One meaningful way to do that is to serve on the Django Code of Conduct committee.

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In this article we’ll go over how to handle webhooks using Django, create a webhook in GitHub, and test the webhook on your local machine using ngrok. But first a brief primer on webhooks.

This is a five part series. We shared the first two a while back. The series focuses on integrating AWS ElasticTranscoder with Django application. The links to the first five parts are at the bottom of the article.

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This hands-on webinar will teach you how to leverage Python and Django to extend an existing web application and add REST capabilities. The webinar begins with an overview of an existing Django application built to track notes and then dives into adding REST using the Django REST Framework. Viewers can follow along as we build the Notes web application. We showcase using PyCharm Professional Edition to inspect the database and test our API. We also look at debugging the application with the powerful PyCharm debugger.

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