{
  "id": 10285457,
  "title": "I built a Django linter that never imports Django",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/i-built-a-django-linter-that-never-imports-django",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-27T20:07:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/frowningdev/i-built-a-django-linter-that-never-imports-django-4oip"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Some background on why static: the drift check was the feature that convinced me. Django's own makemigrations --check is the right answer, but it needs every dependency installed and settings that import cleanly, so on a cold CI runner or a broken venv it simply can't run. Replaying migration files into a field set and diffing against models.py turned out to be enough to catch the dangerous…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}