I have been using htmx and django for several personal project dashboards. Instead of doing a full page load, I wanted a way to refresh individual ‘widgets’ and I think I came up with a simple way to handle it.

Migrating from Celery to Django’s Task Framework is relaltively straight forward. There are only a few configuration changes needed, and a few simple substitutions. For more complicated tasks, consulting the tasks framework documentation is recommended.

Taking stock of my current development environment. This could be useful in the future as a comparison point if parts of my development environment change.

Most Django models are managed, and Django will take care of the entire lifecycle. There are times when working with an external database that it can be useful to use unmanaged models. Combined with Django’s inspectdb command, we can use it to interface with external systems.