Few years as a Django Developer but Still Feel Underqualified — Need Advice to gain Confidence

Hi everyone,

I have few years of experience as a Python Django developer, working from home since day one. I'm currently trying to switch jobs, but I feel like I don't know enough Django or I don't have enough confidence in it.

During this time, I've learned many things other than just django. I haven't built enough personal projects to showcase my skills. Whenever I try to build something, I end up relying heavily on ChatGPT — although I understand what the code does and why it's written that way. Most of my learning has come from YouTube tutorials, and I'm a quick learner, but I struggle with consistency.

One day I'm learning React, the next day something new, and by the end of the week, I'm exploring something entirely different. I feel like I'm all over the place and not mastering anything.

Is this common among self-taught developers? How can I gain real confidence in Django? Should I stick to a structured resource like a book or course? If yes, could you recommend one?

Any advice or personal experiences would be really helpful. Thank you!

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Use DjangoModelFormMutation to update instance in Graphene-Django

Hello,

I am currently trying out graphql in my Django application. I have installed Graphene Django and tried out the first things. Now I want to implement the CRUD operations for my model as simply as possible.

I found in the documentation that you can use the Django Forms for the mutations. So for my model I have

class Category(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable=False)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    language = models.ForeignKey('company.Language', on_delete=models.CASCADE)

i have created a form:

class CategoryForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Category
fields = ('name', 'language',)

And now I use this mutation

class CategoryMutation(DjangoModelFormMutation):
    category = graphene.Field(CategoryType)

    class Meta:
        form_class = CategoryForm


class Mutation(graphene.ObjectType):
    create_category = CategoryMutation.Field()

The creation with the following graphql

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Need Advise for deploying workers

Our client is currently using Render as a hosting service for the Django web app, 2 worker instances, one db instance and one redis instance. The client has a local server that they use for backups and store some information on site. I was thinking about moving the two workers and the redis instance to the NAS and connect them to the main server and the db.

From a cybersecurity perspective, I know it would be better to keep everything on Render, but the workers handle non-essential tasks and non-confidential information; so my take is that this could be done without severely compromising information for the client and reducing the montly costs on Render. I would obviously configure the NAS and the db so they only accept connections from one another and the NAS has decent cybersecurity protocols according to the client.

Am I missing something? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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Need Help deploying a backend flask and front end react website

this is the repo https://github.com/HarshiniDonepudi/wound-app-vite

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Monday Daily Thread: Project ideas!

# Weekly Thread: Project Ideas 💡

Welcome to our weekly Project Ideas thread! Whether you're a newbie looking for a first project or an expert seeking a new challenge, this is the place for you.

## How it Works:

1. **Suggest a Project**: Comment your project idea—be it beginner-friendly or advanced.
2. **Build & Share**: If you complete a project, reply to the original comment, share your experience, and attach your source code.
3. **Explore**: Looking for ideas? Check out Al Sweigart's ["The Big Book of Small Python Projects"](https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Small-Python-Programming/dp/1718501242) for inspiration.

## Guidelines:

* Clearly state the difficulty level.
* Provide a brief description and, if possible, outline the tech stack.
* Feel free to link to tutorials or resources that might help.

# Example Submissions:

## Project Idea: Chatbot

**Difficulty**: Intermediate

**Tech Stack**: Python, NLP, Flask/FastAPI/Litestar

**Description**: Create a chatbot that can answer FAQs for a website.

**Resources**: [Building a Chatbot with Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a37BL0stIuM)

# Project Idea: Weather Dashboard

**Difficulty**: Beginner

**Tech Stack**: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, API

**Description**: Build a dashboard that displays real-time weather information using a weather API.

**Resources**: [Weather API Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5MY_2i7K8)

## Project Idea: File Organizer

**Difficulty**: Beginner

**Tech Stack**: Python, File I/O

**Description**: Create a script that organizes files in a directory into sub-folders based on file type.

**Resources**: [Automate the Boring Stuff: Organizing Files](https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter9/)

Let's help each other grow. Happy

/r/Python
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What Are Your Favorite Python Repositories?

Hey r/Python!

I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful Python repositories, whether they’re libraries, tools, or just fun projects to explore. There are so many gems out there that make development easier, more efficient, or just more fun.

I'd love to hear what repositories you use the most or have found particularly interesting. Whether it's a library you can't live without, an underappreciated project, or something just for fun, let your suggestions be heard below!

Looking forward to your recommendations!


/r/Python
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Why is there no standard implementation of a disjoint set in python?

We have all sorts of data structure implemented as part of the standard library. However disjoint set or union find is totally missing. It's super useful for bunch of things - especially detecting relationships, cycles in graph etc.

Why isn't there an implementation of it? Seems fairly straightforward to write one in python - but having a platform backed implementation would do wonders for performance? Especially if the set becomes huge.


Edit - the contributing guidelines - Adding to the stdlib

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I need help on deploying Django Channels

I wanted to deploy django channels Asgi on a server that has a free tier like pythonanywhere and I don't know one.

and Deploying Django channels requires Redis that is also a problem.
I appreciate any help on this

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How to enable reCAPTCHA v3 in Flask? I've been working on this literally for days... please help.

I'm at my wits end. The process seem so obvious, but it never works.

I have google cloud set up with keys. I've tried to set it up with the Python backend prebuild... which for some reason was deprecated in 2018 and they haven't updated the code. I've tried to set it the HTML button with their REST API, but that seems to only bet integrated for the non-button format.

I just want to stop bots from creating thousands of fake users on my database... please help.

/r/flask
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R Had a paper accepted at CVPR, should I put it in arvix first ?

Hello,
So my first paper was accepted at CVPR.
Apparently the paper will be made available by the Computer Vision Foundation around the first of June. So I’m wondering if I should put it in arvix first !


/r/MachineLearning
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Tuesday Daily Thread: Advanced questions

# Weekly Wednesday Thread: Advanced Questions 🐍

Dive deep into Python with our Advanced Questions thread! This space is reserved for questions about more advanced Python topics, frameworks, and best practices.

## How it Works:

1. **Ask Away**: Post your advanced Python questions here.
2. **Expert Insights**: Get answers from experienced developers.
3. **Resource Pool**: Share or discover tutorials, articles, and tips.

## Guidelines:

* This thread is for **advanced questions only**. Beginner questions are welcome in our [Daily Beginner Thread](#daily-beginner-thread-link) every Thursday.
* Questions that are not advanced may be removed and redirected to the appropriate thread.

## Recommended Resources:

* If you don't receive a response, consider exploring r/LearnPython or join the [Python Discord Server](https://discord.gg/python) for quicker assistance.

## Example Questions:

1. **How can you implement a custom memory allocator in Python?**
2. **What are the best practices for optimizing Cython code for heavy numerical computations?**
3. **How do you set up a multi-threaded architecture using Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)?**
4. **Can you explain the intricacies of metaclasses and how they influence object-oriented design in Python?**
5. **How would you go about implementing a distributed task queue using Celery and RabbitMQ?**
6. **What are some advanced use-cases for Python's decorators?**
7. **How can you achieve real-time data streaming in Python with WebSockets?**
8. **What are the

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The first thing I wish someone told me before building a Django product.

Since I started with a lot of docs, blogs and tutorials to learn Django, I was never able to prioritize this.

But please put more focus on the authentication and permissions part, especially JWT if you are using a separate front-end. Else you will have to do a major restructure.

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Do you use runtime type checking in Python?

Recently, I was surprised to see the following output from a Python program that uses type annotations:

> tail -3 unnacceptable.py
a: int = f()
b: int = g()
print(f'{a} + {b} = {a + b}')

> mypy --strict unnacceptable.py
Success: no issues found in 1 source file

> pyright unnacceptable.py
0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 informations

> python unnacceptable.py
1 + 2 = 12

The cause of this behaviour is the Any type:

def f() -> Any:
return '1'

def g() -> Any:
return '2'

Of course, the static type checkers have to allow the conversion from Any to int at compile-time (because the return values of f and g could indeed be ints), and they don't do anything to check the types of those return values at runtime.

This is in contrast to a statically-typed language (e.g. C# or Dart) which have a type equivalent to Python's Any (named dynamic), but

/r/Python
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Is flask with react ideal for a startup mvp?

Find Flask to be a bit more simplistic than Django or FastAPI. Want to use to it to build CRUD web app.

/r/flask
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Where to put custom form attributes that are not fields?

If I have a ModelForm with some fields and want to add an attribute to it that's not a field, should I put it in the "Meta" inner-class or should I put it directly inside the ModelForm class itself, so right beside the other fields?

In the same way, is an ok thing to do to add an inner Meta class to forms that are not ModelForms when I want to add attributes to them that are not fields?

/r/django
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I Got Tired of "AI Shorts" Scams - So I Built My Own Free & Local Shorts Creator Tool!🎬

I love watching YouTube Shorts. What I don’t love? Seeing a flood of YouTubers claiming,
*"You can make easy AI Shorts in seconds!"* or "*Create your own automated YouTube channel*", .etc

Just to sell you their overpriced AI tools, subscriptions, or video editors.

So, out of sheer spite, I built [ShortsMaker](https://github.com/rajathjn/shorts_maker) \- a completely **free, open-source, local** Shorts automation tool that doesn’t try to upsell you anything. No subscriptions, no cloud nonsense - just Python, AI, and automation running entirely on your machine.

# What My Project Does

[ShortsMaker](https://github.com/rajathjn/shorts_maker) is a Python package that automates the creation of YouTube Shorts - entirely on your local machine. No cloud-based services, no subscriptions, no hidden paywalls, fully customizable short-video generation.

# ShortsMaker is built around four core classes:

* **ShortsMaker** – Handles multiple tasks, such as fetching posts from subreddits, generating audio, transcribing audio, and even fixing spelling & grammar in scripts.
* **MoviepyCreateVideo** – The engine that creates the short video by combining video clips, music, audio, and transcripts.
* **AskLLM** – Uses an AI LLM to extract the best possible **title, description, tags, and thumbnail description** for your script.
* **GenerateImage** – Uses FLUX to generate high-quality AI images for your Shorts.

# Target Audience

This project is for:

*

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Made a Tool That Tracks & Downloads Every Song you Hear

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on called MusicCollector! It’s a Python based tool that helps you identify, track, and even download songs you listen to in real-time. Whether you’re a music enthusiast, a developer, or just someone who loves automating cool stuff, this might be right up your alley!

Have you ever heard a song while scrolling through Instagram, YouTube, or while traveling, only for it to get stuck in your head, but you completely forget what it was later?

I found myself in this situation way too often, whether I was in a cafe, walking through a city, or just mindlessly scrolling instagram/yt late at night. I'd hear a song, love it, but then totally forget what it was called when I wanted to find it again.

I wanted a tool that could passively listen while I go about my day, automatically recognize songs, and store them in a history that I could check later, complete with a downloaded copy so I wouldn’t have to search again to download it. Over time, I realized this could also act as a musical memory log, a collection of every track I’ve discovered, tied to different moments and places in my life.

Eventually, I even thought about adding a geolocation

/r/Python
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What is the best resource to learn Flask in 2025?

Most of the popular tutorials are 4 or 5 years old now, should i follow Corey Scafer?



/r/flask
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Session cookies over HTTP

I have a misunderstanding over the "SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE" flask config element. If I understand correctly, it is supposed to ensure cookies are only sent over HTTPS. However, when I run my flask app in HTTP (unsecure), my session cookies are still sent to my browser and maked as "Secure: true".

What am I not understanding here?

/r/flask
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