Jacob Rief

2 videos · 2 events · 2018–2025 · 59 min of video

Talks

End-to-end testing Django applications using Pytest with Playwright

DjangoCon Europe 2025 · June 4, 2025

Jacob Rief explains how to test Django applications with Pytest and Playwright when server-rendered behavior is combined with client-side interactions, especially in HTMX applications. He contrasts Django’s unittest-based tools with Pytest fixtures, then shows how request-factory and test-client tests can be extended into browser-driven tests…

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Representing Hierarchies in Relational Databases

DjangoCon Europe 2018 · May 23, 2018

Jacob Rief explains four ways to represent trees in relational databases: adjacency lists, materialized paths, nested sets, and recursive common table expressions. He shows how each pattern handles descendant and ancestor queries, indexing, inserts, deletes, ordering, and multiple roots, and compares their trade-offs in Django.…

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DjangoCon Europe 2018 2025