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Episode 215: Using GraphQL in Django With Strawberry & Prototype Purgatory

The Real Python Podcast

Aug 02, 2024 49m

How do you integrate GraphQL into your Python web development? How about quickly building graph-based APIs inside Django’s battery-included framework? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

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Christopher shares a recent tutorial for building GraphQL APIs in Django using the Python library Strawberry. The tutorial digs into creating a project, defining models, and creating GraphQL queries and mutations using Strawberry.

We discuss a blog post from Nat Bennet titled “Why do prototypes suck?” We dig into the common pitfalls of building prototypes and the misconceptions between developers and end users.

We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, using HTMX with FastAPI, creating an unbelievably stupid airline Wi-Fi package, extracting wisdom from conference videos, writing pixel images to the terminal, and a macOS app for Jupyter Notebooks.

This episode is sponsored by Mailtrap.

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Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:27 – Python 3.13.0 Beta 4 Released
00:03:15 – Using HTMX With FastAPI
00:09:51 – Free, Unbelievably Stupid Wi-Fi on Long-Haul Flights
00:13:37 – Sponsor: Mailtrap
00:14:13 – “Extracting Wisdom” From Conference Videos
00:22:34 – Developing GraphQL APIs in Django With Strawberry
00:30:01 – Video Course Spotlight
00:31:33 – Why do prototypes suck?
00:42:53 – Satyrn: macOS App for Jupyter Notebooks
00:46:41 – rich-pixels: A Rich-compatible library for writing pixel images
00:48:23 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

Python 3.13.0 Beta 4 Released

Topics:

Using HTMX With FastAPI – This tutorial looks at how use HTMX with FastAPI by creating a simple todo web app and deploying it on Render.
Free, Unbelievably Stupid Wi-Fi on Long-Haul Flights – Deep in a need to procrastinate on a flight between London and San Francisco, Robert discovered that changing his name on an airline’s frequent flyer account was free over the plane’s WiFi. What’s a developer to do? Work on their tickets? No, create an entire TCP/IP protocol using this loophole. The result is the PySkyWiFi package.
“Extracting Wisdom” From Conference Videos – There are so many conferences and so many videos, you can’t possibly watch them all. This post shows you how to extract information to summarize a talk so you can quickly decide what you want to watch.
Developing GraphQL APIs in Django With Strawberry – This tutorial details how to integrate GraphQL with Django using Strawberry.

Discussion:

Why do prototypes suck?

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