Python Tutorial: Build a SaaS App with Django, Stripe, Neon PostgreSQL, TailwindCSS, GitHub Actions

Topics:
✅ Python web development with Django
✅ Sending Emails with Gmail
✅ Django AllAuth + GitHub Login
✅ Deploy to Railway
✅ Integrate Neon Postgres
✅ Django Groups and User Permissions
✅ Django + Stripe Integration
✅ Stripe reoccurring payments via Products/Prices API
✅ Django Management commands to sync Users subscription status with correct permissions
✅ Django management commands for pulling vendor css/js (tailwind/flowbite) for container-based builds plus
✅ Django with whitenoise
✅ Scheduled GitHub Actions Workflows to sync prod database with stripe status (e.g replacing a Celery beat server)
✅ Using Neon Branching for Postgres in GitHub Actions to leverage production data without touch production data
✅ Python Decouple for env vars

Chapters
00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:33 Overview
00:06:10 What you need to know
00:08:19 Start Django Project
00:18:57 Your First HTML Webpage with Python Functions
00:28:27 Rendering HTML Documents
00:33:33 Using Django Templates
00:43:46 Django Template Inheritance, Conditions, & Include
00:53:39 Store and Retrieve Data Part 1
01:03:59 Store and Retrieve Data Part 2
01:11:17 Push to GitHub via Git
01:18:12 Prepare for Production Environment
01:25:28 Deploy Django to Railway with Docker Containers
01:41:57 The Hard Way to Manage Environment Variables
01:48:00 dotenv and Python Decouple to Manage Environment Variables
01:56:33 Provision a Serverless PostgreSQL Database with Neon
02:03:50 Integrate PostgreSQL with Django
02:11:21 Neon in Production + Database Branching
02:18:06 Styling with CDN for TailwindCSS and Flowbite
02:25:42 Configure Django Static Files in Dev
02:38:57 Download Url to Local File Helper Function
02:43:16 Custom Django Management Command to Pull Vendor Files
02:55:06 Missing Args with Container Build in Railway
03:01:19 Using WhiteNoise to Serve Django Static Files
03:12:09 Configure Django to use Email with Gmail
03:22:15 Django Admin User + User Passwords
03:33:20 Django Login View Logic
03:41:45 HTML Login Form and Template
03:52:46 Register Users the Hard Way
04:03:19 Configure Django AllAuth
04:15:10 User Email Verification with Django AllAuth
04:17:25 Better UI for Django AllAuth
04:28:24 Navbar Links for Auth
04:35:31 Login with GitHub via Django AllAuth
04:44:20 Password Protected Page with Django Sessions
04:52:22 User-required Pages via login_required Decorator
04:55:43 Staff User Required
05:01:22 User Profile View
05:09:43 User Permissions and has_perm
05:20:32 User Permissions in Django Templates
05:29:45 Groups & Group-level Permissions
05:33:18 Custom Permissions for Django Users
05:41:27 Groups and Permissions within Subscriptions
05:49:07 Syncing Subscription Groups and Permissions
05:56:35 Sync User Subscription with the User Group Part 1
06:02:58 Sync User Subscription with the User Group Part 2
06:12:41 Getting Started with Stripe
06:19:49 Django Customer Model
06:24:48 Override Django Save to Create Stripe Customer
06:37:10 DjangoAll Auth Signal to Confirm Django Stripe Customers
06:51:40 Our Django Subscription Model as a Stripe Product
06:57:01 Subscription Price Model
07:09:33 Manage Prices in Django Admin with Tabular Inlines
07:15:41 Featured and Ordered Pricing
07:24:26 Subscription Pricing View & Template
07:29:39 Pricing Table based on QuerySets
07:42:16 Pricing Interval Toggle Views
07:50:26 A Django Session Based Checkout Process
08:01:55 Stripe Checkout Session
08:12:57 Stripe Checkout Finalize View in Django
08:22:27 Successful Purchase to User Subscription Model
08:35:03 Auto Cancel Subscription on New Plan
08:44:54 Adding Subscription Billing Period Dates
08:58:20 User Subscription Status Field
09:04:59 User Subscription View and Refresh
09:18:16 User Subscription Cancel View
09:30:35 Cancel Dangling User Subscriptions
09:41:21 Custom Django Management Command with Arguments
09:47:23 Subscription Refresh Utility Function
09:56:40 Custom Django Model QuerySets and Model Managers
10:05:03 Filtering Django Models with Datetime Objects
10:18:57 Hello World from GitHub Actions
10:28:45 Testing Django Basics with GitHub Actions
10:35:18 Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
10:41:00 Github Actions Secrets for Database URL
10:47:38 Branch Neon DB for Django Tests
11:01:41 Scheduled Production Worker with Django Neon Stripe and GitHub Actions
11:18:00 A Better Landing Page with Flowbite
11:27:19 Using the SaaS Theme to Fix Missing Tailwind Classes
11:31:39 Dashboard View
11:37:12 Decouple Dashboard
11:49:13 Thank you and next steps

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