3 videos · 3 events · 2020–2022 · 1h 59m of video
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Wagtail Space US 2022 · March 30, 2022
Wagtail is evolving from a CMS with a few built-in models into a platform for building custom Django applications with reusable admin components. Matt Westcott explains that this means documenting and stabilising previously internal APIs, including edit handlers, view sets, template components, and table components,…
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DjangoCon Europe 2021 · July 25, 2021
Django’s traditional server-rendered forms and HTML-level JavaScript work well for simple interactions, but they become unwieldy when rich client-side interfaces need access to structured application data. Matt Westcott presents Telepath, a mechanism that transports Python objects and their definitions to JavaScript, giving the browser data-level…
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Wagtail Space US 2020 · August 11, 2020
Matt Westcott argues that Wagtail should extend Django rather than recreate or replace it. He uses the “inner platform effect” to explain problems such as overly rigid edit handlers, the all-or-nothing Wagtail Images app, and excessive reliance on hooks, while advocating layers that let developers…