At djangsters we care about security. We care so much about security that the batteries-included approach to it that Django follows is one of the main reasons Django is a fundamental building block for our web apps. To extend our security portfolio, over the last couple of years we started…

Last year I did a few things focusing on increasing the performance of JavaScript development. Well, to be honest, I did a lot of things, I talked about Storybook, I presented about Rusty tools, I ran a comparison of Next.js …

Scheduled or just repetitive tasks tend to feel like chores, sucking out creativity and inspiration. Regardless they still have to get done. As software developers we are not an exception in having such tasks, but we have something up our sleeve — namely skills to automate! …

The benchmark results for Next.js 12 are convincing. But is it worth the switch? — At our recent team building event, I gave a talk on why JavaScript developers are moving their tools to Rust. It was a pretty well-received talk and we decided that it would be cool to share it with the world. So here it is. This is the edited version of…

When you hear Django and React you might think of having a microservice approach with two separate services hosted separately, which communicate through an HTTP-based API. Frontend and backend are separate apps running as independent services. The two apps have nothing to do with each other, other than the shared…

The sages say change is inevitable but growth is optional. We here, at djangsters, like growing. So when we started work on a new home page for one of our clients, we opted to grow our toolset by introducing Storybook among other things. Here are our thoughts on it. But…

No one likes to see a business relationship end, right? Be it that the customer is unhappy with their current service provider or agency, the agency does not want to continue to work with the client or as in our case found a more fitting business partner going forward. In…

Success Story — Our Salesforce synchronization solution enables automatic sharing of relevant business data across departments and tools. In this article, we describe how the sharing of contract data between the custom web application of the service department and Salesforce allowed for smooth cross-department access and automated usage-based billing. The Challenge Salesforce is a Customer…

With news about Coronavirus screaming at us from all angles, it might seem that the virus is the only danger out there. But don’t get tricked by this. As software developers we constantly battle our occupational nemesis, developer burnout. …