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A curated list of awesome things related to Django. Maintained by William Vincent and Jeff Triplett.


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Third-Party Packages

For a complete listing of all available packages, see Django Packages

Admin

  • django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the admin.
  • django-jazzmin - Drop-in theme for django admin, that utilises AdminLTE 3 & Bootstrap 4 to make yo' admin look jazzy.
  • django-hijack - Admins can log in and work on behalf of other users without having to know their credentials.
  • django-import-export - Django application and library for importing and exporting data with admin integration.
  • django-admin-honeypot - Configure a honeypot to see who's trying to hack your site.
  • django-loginas - "Log in as user" for the Django admin.
  • impostor - Impostor is a Django application which allows staff members to login as a different user by using their own username and password.
  • django-impersonate - Allow superusers to “impersonate” other non-superuser accounts.
  • django-admin-env-notice - Visually distinguish environments in Django Admin, for example: development, staging, production.
  • django-admin-interface - Customize Admin by the admin itself(color, header. title,logo) and popup windows replaced by modals.
  • django-material-admin - Material design for django administration.
  • django-related-admin - A helper library that allows you to write list_displays accross foreign key relationships.
  • django-semantic-admin - Django Semantic UI admin theme.
  • django-jet-reboot - Django Jet is modern template for Django admin interface with improved functionality.
  • django-baton - A cool, modern and responsive django admin application based on bootstrap 5.
  • django-admin-sortable2 - Generic drag-and-drop ordering for objects in the Django admin interface.

APIs

Async

Caching

  • django-cachalot - Caches your Django ORM queries and automatically invalidates them.
  • django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.

Commands

  • django-extensions - Custom management extensions, notably runserver_plus and shell_plus.
  • django-click - Write Django management commands using the click CLI library.
  • django-dbbackup - Management commands to help backup and restore your project database and media files.
  • django-liquidb - Django application to simplify migration management and changes in states of db scheme.

Configuration

  • confidential - Manage configs and secrets (with CLI support).
  • django-environ - Environment variables.
  • django-split-settings - Organize multiple settings files.
  • django-constance - A Django app for storing dynamic settings in pluggable backends (Redis and Django model backend built in) with an integration with the Django admin app.
  • django-configurations - eases Django project configuration by relying on the composability of Python classes and following principles of the twelve-factor app.
  • dynaconf - Dynaconf loads django settings from multiple sources (multiple file formats, env vars, redis, vault, etcd), manages secrets, and allows for different merging strategies all following the twelve-factor app.
  • django-extra-settings - Config and manage typed extra settings using just the django admin.
  • environs - Simplified environment variable parsing that comes with a Django helper that installs additional packages.

Content Management Systems

Database Connectors

  • djongo - Django and MongoDB database connector.

ECommerce

  • saleor - GraphQL-based Django E-Commerce Platform.
  • django-shop - Django-based shop system.
  • shuup - Django E-Commerce Platform.
  • django-oscar - Domain-driven e-commerce for Django.

Editors

Files/Images

  • django-cleanup - Zero configuration file/image removal for local and remote files.
  • django-imagekit - Django app for processing images for thumbnail, black-and-white and sizes.
  • django-pictures - Responsive cross-browser image library using modern codes like AVIF & WebP.
  • sorl-thumbnail - Thumbnails for Django.

Forms

Full-stack frameworks

  • ReactPy - It's React, but in Python. Insert dynamically rendered Python into Django templates using the ReactPy-Django module.
  • Reactor - Phoenix LiveView, but for Django.
  • Sockpuppet - Build reactive applications with the Django tooling you already know and love.
  • Unicorn - A reactive component framework that progressively enhances a normal Django view, makes AJAX calls in the background, and dynamically updates the DOM.
  • iommi - Toolkit for development of CRUD applications without writing HTML or JavaScript.

General

  • django-data-browser - Interactive, user-friendly database explorer.
  • django-filter - Powerful filters based on Django QuerySets.
  • django-guardian - Per object permissions in Django.
  • django-sql-explorer - Share data via SQL queries.
  • django-tables2 - HTML tables with pagination/sorting.
  • django-maintenance-mode - Shows a 503 error page when maintenance-mode is on.
  • django-freeze - Convert your dynamic django site to a static one with one line of code.
  • Weblate - Weblate is a copylefted libre software web-based continuous localization system, used by over 2500 libre projects and companies in more than 165 countries.

Logging

  • django-guid - Inject a GUID (Correlation-ID) into every log message in a Django request.
  • DRF-API-Logger - An API Logger for your Django Rest Framework project.

Model Fields

Models

Performance

  • django-perf-rec - Keep detailed records of the performance of your Django code.
  • New Relic - Time middleware, views, and SQL queries.
  • Scout - Time middleware, template rendering, and SQL queries with automatic N+1 detection.
  • django-query-profiler - Django query profiler to help resolve N+1 queries.
  • django-silk - Live profiling and inspection of HTTP requests and database queries.
  • py-spy - Sampling profiler for Python programs.
  • pyinstrument - Call stack profiler for Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI.

Search

Search Engine Optimisation

Security

Static Assets

Task Queues

  • beatserver - A periodic task scheduler for Django.
  • django-q - A multiprocessing distributed task queue.
  • django-rq - Integration for Redis Queue.
  • django-redis - Full-featured Redis cache backend for Django.
  • celery - Robust and broker-agnostic task queues for bigger, performance-focused projects.
  • flower - Flower is a web-based tool for monitoring and administrating Celery clusters.
  • django-celery-beat - A periodic task scheduler with database configured by Django's Admin Panel.
  • celery-exporter - Prometheus & Grafana monitoring of Celery tasks.
  • django-dramatiq - Task processing library with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and performance.

Testing

URLs

  • dj-database-url - Database URLs.
  • urlman - A nicer way to do URLs for Django models.
  • django-robots - This is a basic Django application to manage robots.txt files following the robots exclusion protocol, complementing the Django Sitemap contrib app.
  • django-redirects - Redirects as they should be, with full control.

Users

  • django-allauth - Improved user registration including social auth.
  • django-improved-user - A custom Django user that authenticates via email. Follows identity and authentication best practices.
  • django-organizations - Multi-user accounts for Django projects.
  • django-cas-ng - Django-cas-ng is Django CAS (Central Authentication Service) 1.0/2.0/3.0 client library to support SSO (Single Sign On) and Single Logout (SLO).

Views

Python Packages

A short list of Python packages that work well with Django.

  • bleach - Sanitize your inputs/forms.
  • black - Uncompromising Python code formatter.
  • coveragepy - Code coverage measurement.
  • faker - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
  • huey - A little task queue for Python.
  • nplusone - Auto-detect n+1 queries.
  • pillow - Python Imaging Library.
  • pytest - Testing framework.
  • python-decouple - Strict separation of settings from code.
  • python-slugify - Returns unicode slugs.
  • sentry-python - Error reporting SDK.
  • whitenoise - Simplified static file serving for Python websites.

Resources

Official Resources

Educational

Community

Conferences

Newsletters

  • Django News - Weekly newsletter on announcements, articles, projects, and talks.

Podcasts

  • Django Chat - A weekly podcast from William Vincent and Django Fellow Carlton Gibson with discussions of core Django concepts and regular guests.
  • Django Riffs - A new podcast from Matt Layman.
  • Running in Production - Focused on tech stacks with many episodes specifically on Django.
  • TalkPython - The leading Python podcast with several episodes on Django.
  • Podcast Init - A popular Python podcast that features Django guests on occasion.

Books

Django 4.2

Django 4.0

Django 3.2

Hosting

PaaS (Platforms-as-a-Service)

IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

Projects

Boilerplate

  • cookiecutter-django - A full-bodied starter project, highly customizable.
  • django-base-site - A Django site with many common third-party packages pre-installed.
  • djangox - Batteries included starter project for Pip, Pipenv, or Docker.
  • DRFx - A DRF starter with user auth, Pipenv, and other goodies.
  • django-project-template - A deliberately basic project that has multiple staging environments and Heroku deployment config.
  • docker-django - A quick starter guide for Django and Docker together.
  • django-docker-template - Dockerized Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Traefik (with auto renew Let's Encrypt).
  • django-startproject - Django start project template with batteries.
  • wemake-django-template - Bleeding edge Django template focused on code quality and security.
  • django-webpack-starter - Django Webpack starter template for using Webpack 4.
  • sos-django-template - Django starter template with separate dev and production settings.
  • django-docker-heroku-template - A template with Docker, GitHub Actions, and Heroku set up for dev/test/prod, plus various other best practices.
  • cookiecutter-vue-django - Django + Vue starter project fusing Vue SFCs & Django Templates.
  • launchr - Launchr is a specialized Django starter template for SaaS web apps.

Open Source Projects

Django REST Framework

The most popular way to build web APIs with Django.

DRF Resources

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