Exploring Django Async ORM

Django Async ORM was introduced in Django 4.1 to help developers take advantage of native support of asynchronous behavior in Python. When we use asynchronous Views or code in Django, we cannot use the native synchronous ORM. Using synchronous Django ORM would mean we are calling blocking synchronous code from asynchronous code, which will block the event loop. Django has a way to stop this, and we’ll see a SynchronousOnlyOperation error thrown by Django during such an operation.

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If you are not familiar with async-await support in Python, please check out the official documentation to understand how Python natively supports async-await: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html.

We should use Django Async ORM with Django Async view/code. The asynchronous query API would give the same response as the original synchronous Django ORM query API. The only difference is how we write the syntax of the query.

For example, let...