Pre-commit

On a development team, you never want to push directly to the main branch. Instead, you want to require changes to be made through pull requests so they can be properly reviewed by other developers. Some developers, including myself, occasionally forget to push to a new branch so I like to have an automated check to prevent this mistake. Here are two methods to block direct pushes to the GitHub main branch....

Keeping your models in sync with your migrations is an important part of any Django app. My team and I frequently make changes to our models and we occassionally forget to create new migrations for those changes. This results in errors and data loss. Let’s look at an easy way to ensure your models and migrations are always in sync: We’ll use a simple Product model. class Product(models.Model): name = models....