django-lifecycle VS django-schema-graph

You could use lifecycle hooks to only trigger the function on certain column updates https://rsinger86.github.io/django-lifecycle/

Even better alternative to signals, IMO, is lifecycle hooks

I've just came across Django Lifecycle Hooks (Recommended by a fellow Redditor) and I want to use it in my site.

To track each order status, we used django-lifecycle package. Whenever the status changes, it triggers the hook and status log is created.

You may want to look at django lifecycle hooks which has a really simple and powerful API for models: https://rsinger86.github.io/django-lifecycle/

If it's bind to saving to database, you have different options like overriding Model.save(), signals, and django-lifecycle.

Several replies mention django signals. That's an option, but a similar tool that provides a much clearer/cleaner implementation is django-lifecycle.

Note, my solution uses django-lifecycle and here is their documentation

The package is still in beta for now but it's already working pretty well. You can learn more and try by yourself here: https://rsinger86.github.io/django-lifecycle/

I made a tool that's specially designed for interactive visualisations of Django database schemas.

Check out django-schema-graph. I hope you like it!

https://github.com/meshy/django-schema-graph/