debug:django

What problem does it solve?

Django applications often encounter misconfigurations, template issues, and ORM inefficiencies that are hard to isolate. This Skill provides a repeatable debugging workflow with guidance, tooling, and best practices to rapidly reproduce, isolate, and fix defects in Django projects.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured workflow: Four-phase methodology (root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, implementation) for Django bugs.
• Tooling guidance: Instructions for enabling Django Debug Toolbar, pdb/ipdb, and django-extensions shell_plus to capture SQL queries, stack traces, and interactive debugging.
• Common scenarios: TemplateDoesNotExist, ImproperlyConfigured, IntegrityError, N+1 queries, migration conflicts, and CSRF issues across Django apps.

Quick Start

Start by enabling the Django Debug Toolbar and pdb/ipdb in your development environment, then reproduce a failing page to collect logs, stack traces, and ORM queries.