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Django integration tips

Short Django recipes: passwordless login, Stripe payments, background tasks, Tailwind, login lockout. Each one has the code to copy and the settings it needs.

Auth

How to add magic-link login to Django
Passwordless sign-in with django-mail-auth. Stock auth.User makes it a hijack risk.
Stop brute-force logins in Django with django-axes
Seven settings configure django-axes. One of them turns the lockout off in the wrong place.

Billing

How to add Stripe Checkout to Django
Two views and one field on the user model. An idempotency key prevents duplicate customers after a double click.

Background work

How to add Celery to Django with Redis
Configure the app object and two Redis databases. Then set the two time limits that Celery omits.

Frontend

Tailwind CSS in Django without Node
The standalone binary and one template tag. The startup error names everything except Tailwind.