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Django Development Subscription

AsyncForge builds Django web apps, DRF APIs, and admin dashboards with senior engineers on a subscription from €2,000/month — API-first, secure, well-tested.

Django Development - AsyncForge development service

When Django is the Right Choice

Django is the go-to Python framework when you need a full-featured web application quickly. Its admin panel, ORM, authentication system, and security features save weeks of development time compared to building from scratch. For content-heavy applications, internal tools, and products that need a robust admin interface, Django remains the most productive choice in the Python ecosystem.

Finding Django developers who understand both the framework deeply and modern frontend integration is challenging. Many Django developers are stuck in template-based thinking while the world has moved to API-first architectures. You need engineers who can build a Django REST Framework API that your React frontend consumes, not server-rendered HTML templates from 2015.

Django projects often accumulate technical debt faster than other frameworks because the "batteries included" philosophy makes it easy to get something working without getting it right. Fat views, circular imports, missing indexes, and N+1 queries are common problems that slow down applications as they grow. Fixing these issues requires deep understanding of Django internals, not just surface-level framework knowledge.

The Django ecosystem also includes essential tools that need proper configuration: Celery for background tasks, Django REST Framework for APIs, Django Channels for WebSockets, and various authentication packages. Each of these has its own configuration patterns and gotchas, and choosing the wrong approach early leads to painful migrations later.

Our team builds modern Django applications — API-first with Django REST Framework, proper database design, Celery for background tasks, and clean integration with React or Next.js frontends. Through AsyncForge, you get experienced Django engineers at a fixed monthly rate, without the overhead of hiring or managing a team.

What You Get

Django REST Framework

Production-ready REST APIs with serializers, viewsets, and proper authentication. We build DRF APIs with clean serializer hierarchies, proper permission classes, and pagination that your frontend team can consume easily. Every endpoint handles edge cases, validates input strictly, and returns consistent error responses that make debugging straightforward.

Admin Customization

Tailored Django admin panels that non-technical team members can actually use. We customize the admin with inline editing, custom filters, bulk actions, and dashboard widgets that turn Django admin from a developer tool into a genuine back-office application. Custom admin views let your operations team manage complex workflows without developer involvement.

Database Design

Well-structured models with proper migrations, indexes, and query optimization. We design Django models with proper field types, constraints, and relationships. Every query-heavy view gets optimized with select_related, prefetch_related, and proper indexing. We write migrations that run safely on production databases with millions of rows.

Background Tasks

Celery integration for email sending, report generation, and async processing. We configure Celery workers with proper task routing, retry policies, dead letter queues, and error handling. Whether you need periodic reports, webhook processing, or heavy data imports, tasks run reliably in the background without blocking your web application or slowing down user-facing requests.

Security

CSRF protection, XSS prevention, and Django security middleware configured correctly. Django provides strong security defaults, but they need proper configuration for production. We ensure security middleware is active, sensitive settings are excluded from responses, and custom code follows secure patterns for authentication, file uploads, and input handling.

Testing

Django test framework with factory_boy fixtures and comprehensive API test coverage. We write tests that verify your business logic through the API layer — creating realistic test data with factories, testing permission boundaries, and verifying that error conditions are handled properly. Every feature ships with tests that give you confidence to refactor.

Technologies We Use

Django 5Django REST FrameworkCeleryRedisPostgreSQLDockerPytestGunicorn

How It Works With AsyncForge

1

Define your application

Tell us what you need — a DRF API, a customised admin, or a full web app. Share existing models and code so we can plan against your current state.

2

We set up the foundation

Production-ready settings, clean models, and authentication from day one, with a Docker dev environment and patterns that keep the app out of fat-view territory.

3

Build features iteratively

Each task ships the model changes, DRF endpoints, admin config, and factory_boy tests together, so you review and deploy features independently.

4

Deploy with confidence

Docker-based deploy with Gunicorn workers, static file serving, and connection pooling tuned for real traffic.

AsyncForge is invite-only

We work with a small number of founders at a time. New clients come on after a 15-minute intro call with Stef — request one below.