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Pretty cool seeing how people still go for Django even with so many new frameworks, always makes me wanna go back to it when stuff gets messy tbh

Are people choosing Django for new projects much these days?

It's easy to get something quick working with HTMX and Django, but if you want robust UI tests that actually test what happens when users click stuff, don't you need to use something like Playwright? This can be pretty heavy, slow and flaky, compared to regular Django tests?

I find with HTMX, it can introduce a lot of edge cases to do with error handling, showing loading progress, and making sure the data on the current page is consistent when you're partially updating chunks of it. With the traditional clunky full-page-refresh Django way, you avoid a lot of this.

Thanks for the summary. Looking forward to the videos becoming available.

> I talked to this speaker afterward, and asked him how they did nested modals + updating widgets in a form after creating a new object in a nested modal. He showed me how he did it, I've been trying to figure this out for 8 months!

Do share!

> Always use a BigInt (64 bits) or UUID for primary keys.

Use bigint, never UUID. UUIDs are massive (2x a bigint) and now your DBMS has to copy that enormous value to every side of a relation.

It will bloat your table and indexes 2x for no good reason whatsoever.

Never use UUIDs as your primary keys.

It looks like htmx is popular in the Django community. Is there any background story that made this? (Context: Just picked Django for a hobby project. Don't know much about Webdev trend beyond, like, what are talked about on the HN top page.)

Some of the talks look really interesting — are there any YouTube videos linked? I couldn’t find those.