This is part there in a three-part series:

1. Making React and Django play well together
2. Making React and Django play well together - the “hybrid app” model
3. Making React and Django play well together - the “single page app” model

Making React and Django play well together - the “single page app” model

This message continues my analysis of the trade-offs involved in choosing an architecture for integrating React with Django.

This is part two in a three-part series:

1. Making React and Django play well together
2. Making React and Django play well together - the “hybrid app” model
3. Making React and Django play well together - the “single page app” model

Making React and Django play well together - the “hybrid app” model

In my last post I discussed the trade-offs involved in choosing an architecture for integrating React with Django.

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This is part one in a three-part series:

1. Making React and Django play well together
2. Making React and Django play well together - the “hybrid app” model
3. Making React and Django play well together - the “single page app” model

Making React and Django play well together

Building a frontend with React and create-react-app and the corresponding backend with Django is a popular combination.

Indeed, even though the Node.js ecosystem is …

Managing multiple geographies and time zones in Django - part 2

Last month, I demonstrated how to handle geographies in a Django app, so that:

• users can only interact with objects attached to their geography;
• users see datetimes in the local time zone of their geography.

This is an example of multi-tenancy: each geography is a tenant.

Then I had an uncommon requirement: let a user account interact with several geographies. It’s …

Managing multiple geographies and time zones in Django

“Oh, I’ll just write a small Django app…”

For the last couple years, I’ve been building and maintaining a Django application to manage mobile push notification campaigns for myCANAL.

Through the Django admin, campaign managers define their messages and schedule campaigns targeted at user segments. A handful of cron jobs take care of importing segments from our data lake and sending campaigns via mobile push notification APIs.