With a Django project, what it is actually doing is spinning up a new test database at this point which will be the cause of your slowness. If you haven’t made

With a Django project, what it is actually doing is spinning up a new test database at this point which will be the cause of your slowness. If you haven’t made database schema changes you can run it with the flag “—reuse-db”. If you’ve got a large project that’s been going for a while, squashing migrations helps too. It can be a bit tricky to do this though.