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This is the fourth installment in a series on leveraging pydantic for Django-based projects. Before we continue, let’s review: In the series’ first installment, we focused on pydantic’s use of Python type hints to streamline Django settings management. In the second tutorial, we used Docker while building a web application based on this concept, aligning our development and production environments. The third article described hosting our app on Heroku.

Written with a security-first design principle—a departure from Python libraries such as Flask and FastAPI—Django features baked-in support for identifying many common security pitfalls. Using a functional web application example, running and available to the internet, we will leverage Django to enhance application security.

To follow along, please be sure to first deploy our example web application, as described in the first installment of this tutorial series. We will then assess, fortify, and verify our Django app’s security, resulting in

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