At the moment I use PyCharm as my integrated development tool for both front end and back end. My main stack is JavaScript, CSS, ECMAScript 6, Vue, Python, Django, Mako, and Markdown. Front-end work has been growing steadily lately, and PyCharm seems to be struggling. Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code became the candidates; Atom is maintained by GitHub, has better community support, and is more configurable and more fun to play with.

1. Automatically Generating HTML Form Elements A Widget is the tool used to render an HTML element. Specifying a widget 1 2 3 4 5 6 from django import forms class CommentForm(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField() url = forms.URLField() comment = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea) Output of CommentForm().as_table() 1 2 3 4 5 6

1. Basic Concepts ORM: Object Relational Mapping. Its job is to map between a relational database and objects. No complex SQL statements are needed — operating on data is as simple as operating on objects. QuerySet: the list of objects for a given model. A QuerySet lets you read data

A quick word on the project requirements: the team needed to publish documentation externally. The documents are written in Markdown and need to be published as HTML. At first we used an Nginx + Jekyll solution. As the documentation grew, the document system developed a strong need for search. I

1. Basic Concepts Django ships with a signal dispatcher built in. Signals help decouple program modules. When an event occurs elsewhere in the application, a designated function is notified. Signals let certain senders notify a group of receivers that some action has taken place. 2. Using Signals 2.1 Declaring a