Extract a New Open Source Package - Building SaaS with Python and Django #140

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In this episode, I pulled out code from homeschool application and started a new open source project for a portion that I thought would be useful for others. The new package, which I have called django-denied, is a way of handling authorization in your Django apps.

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Announcing django-denied

Django has a new authorization option with django-denied. This new package makes authorization checks required for all of your views in your Django app.

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Teacher Checklist Model - Building SaaS with Python and Django #139

In this episode, we created a new model for the teacher checklist feature that I recently added to my homeschool app. This new checklist model will enable users to filter out courses that …

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