awesome-django
by wsvincent
A curated list of awesome things related to Django
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A curated list of tools and resources to help Django developers improve their workflow and build better applications.
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Third-Party Packages / Admin
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: , ,
django-admin-sortable2
Generic drag-and-drop ordering for objects in the Django admin interface
Third-Party Packages / Admin Themes
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-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-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-unfold
Modern Django admin theme for seamless interface development
django-daisy
A modern django dashboard fully responsive built with daisyui
django-admin-dracula
🦇 Dracula themes for the Django admin
Third-Party Packages / APIs
django-rest-framework
Web APIs for Django
django-cors-headers
If your back-end and front-end are on different servers, you need this
dj-rest-auth
Authentication for Django Rest Framework
django-rest-knox
Authentication Module for django-rest-auth
djoser
REST implementation of Django auth
djaq
An instant remote API to Django models with a powerful query language
django-rest-framework-simplejwt
JSON web tokens for DRF
django-webpack-loader
Transparently use webpack with Django
drf-yasg
Automated generation of real Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 schemas from Django REST Framework code
graphene-django
GraphQL for Django
graphene-django-filter
Advanced filters implementing and/or/not operators in GraphQL for Django
- django-ninja
Django Ninja - Fast Django REST framework based on type annotations
django-tastypie
Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010
drf-spectacular
Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework
django-webhook
A plug-and-play Django app for sending outgoing webhooks on model changes
Third-Party Packages / Async
Third-Party Packages / Caching
django-cachalot
Caches your Django ORM queries and automatically invalidates them
django-cacheops
A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation
Third-Party Packages / Commands
django-extensions
Custom management extensions, notably and
django-click
Write Django management commands using the
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
django-migration-zero
Holistic implementation of "migration zero" pattern for Django covering local changes and in-production database adjustments
django-typer
Write Django management commands using the
Third-Party Packages / 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
- 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
django-extra-settings
Config and manage typed extra settings using just the django admin
environs
Simplified environment variable parsing that comes with a that installs additional packages
django-classy-settings
Class based settings to keep your environments in order, with easy access to typed environment variables
- django-content-settings
Easily create and manage editable typed variables directly from the Django admin panel
Third-Party Packages / Content Management Systems
wagtail
Popular Django content management system (CMS). See too
mezzanine
CMS framework
django-cms
CMS for Django
feincms
An extensible Django-based CMS
puput
Blog app features with Wagtail
Third-Party Packages / Database Connectors
djongo
Django and MongoDB database connector
Third-Party Packages / 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
Third-Party Packages / Editors
django-markdownx
Comprehensive Markdown plugin built for Django
django-markdown-editor
Awesome Django Markdown Editor, supported for Bootstrap & Semantic-UI
django-business-logic
Visual DSL framework for Django
django-quill-editor
Makes Quill.js easy to use on Django Forms and admin sites
django-summernote
Summernote is a simple WYSIWYG editor
django-tinymce
TinyMCE integration for Django
django-prose
A light weight editor to content creation
django-ace
ACE integration for Django
Third-Party Packages / 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
Third-Party Packages / Forms
django-bleach
Integrate bleach into forms and models. See as an alternative
django-crispy-forms
DRY Django forms
django-floppyforms
Full control of form rendering
django-formtools
For form previous and multi-step forms, previously part of Django until 1.8
django-widget-tweaks
Tweak form field rendering in templates
django-autocomplete-light
Add autocompletion to forms
django-shapeshifter
A class-based view to handle multiple forms in one view
Third-Party Packages / Full-stack frameworks
Django-Bridge
The simple way to build React frontends for Django applications
ReactPy
It's React, but in Python. Insert dynamically rendered Python into Django templates using the
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
Third-Party Packages / General
django-data-browser
Interactive, user-friendly database explorer
django-filter
Powerful filters based on Django QuerySets
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
django-nh3
Django integration with for nh3 and is an alternative for django-bleach
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
Django-Classy-Doc
Document your own code in the style of CCBV and CDRF
Third-Party Packages / Internationalisation (i18n)
django-localflavor
A collection of functionality that is useful for particular countries or cultures. Previously a part of the Django core
django-modeltrans
Translate Django model fields in a JSONField
django-modeltranslations
Translates Django models using a registration approach
django-rosetta
Rosetta provides a UI to read and write your project's gettext catalogs within the Django Admin
Third-Party Packages / 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
Third-Party Packages / Monitoring
django-prometheus
Export Django monitoring metrics to Prometheus
django-mixin
Monitoring mixin for Django-prometheus. A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus rules for Django
Third-Party Packages / Mailing
django-pony-express
Class-based emails including a test suite for Django
django-anymail
Django email backends and webhooks for Amazon SES, Brevo (Sendinblue), MailerSend, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postmark, Postal, Resend, SendGrid, SparkPost, Unisender Go and more
Third-Party Packages / Model Fields
django-any-urlfield
An improved URL selector to choose between internal models and external URLs
django-colorfield
Color field for django models with a nice color-picker widget
django-model-utils
Django model mixins and utilities
django-money
Money fields for forms/models
django-phonenumber-field
Model/form field for normalized phone numbers
django-streamfield
Simple StreamField for plain Django admin (based on Wagtail CMS StreamField idea)
Third-Party Packages / Models
django-lifecycle
Declarative model lifecycle hooks, an alternative to Signals
django-mptt
Modified Preorder Tree Traversal; working with trees of Model instances
django-taggit
Simple model tags
django-reversion
Version control for model instances
django-simple-history
Store model history and view/revert changes from the admin
django-polymorphic
Django-polymorphic simplifies using inherited models in Django projects
django-recurrence
Utility for working with recurring dates in Django
django-treenode
Abstract model/admin for tree based stuff
django-auto-prefetch
Automatically prefetch foreign key values as needed
Third-Party Packages / 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
django-zeal
Detect N+1 queries with user-friendly error messages
Third-Party Packages / Permissions
django-role-permissions
Django app for role-based permissions management
django-guardian
Per object permissions in Django
django-rules
A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions, built from the ground up for Django
Third-Party Packages / Search
django-haystack
Modular search for Django
django-watson
Full-text search plugin
django-admin-search
Modal filter for django admin
django-elasticsearch-dsl
Elasticsearch DSL integration for Django
Third-Party Packages / Search Engine Optimisation
django-check-seo
Check SEO of pages
Third-Party Packages / Security
django-csp
Adds headers to Django
django-feature-policy
Set the draft security HTTP header on a Django app
django-protected-media
Manages media that are considered sensitive in a protected fashion
- DJ Checkup
Runs several checks on your deployed Django site to check for common security mistakes
Third-Party Packages / Static Assets
django-storages
A single library to support multiple custom storage backends for Django
django-compressor
Compress JavaScript/CSS into a single cached file
easy-thumbnails
Image thumbnails for Django
whitenoise
Simplified static file serving for Python websites
Third-Party Packages / Task Queues
beatserver
A periodic task scheduler for Django
django-q2
A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django
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
django-celery-results
Celery result backend with Django
django-tasks
A reference implementation and backport of background workers and tasks in Django, based on
Third-Party Packages / Templates
- curlylint
Experimental HTML templates linting for Jinja, Nunjucks, Django templates, Twig, Liquid
django-components
A way to create simple reusable template components in Django
django-template-partials
Reusable named inline partials for the Django Template Language
djhtml
Django/Jinja template indenter
- djlint
Lint & Format HTML Templates
- slippers
Build reusable components in Django without writing a single line of Python
- JinjaX
Super components powers for your Jinja templates
- django-cotton
Goodbye , Hello . Bringing modern UI composition to Django
- htpy
htpy is a library that makes writing HTML in plain Python fun and efficient, without a template language
Third-Party Packages / Testing
django-debug-toolbar
Configurable panels to debug requests/responses
pytest-django
Use pytest features in Django
django-test-migrations
Test django schema and data migrations, including migrations' order
django-test-plus
Useful additions to Django's default TestCase
factory-boy
Test fixtures replacement
django-waffle
A feature flipper for Django
model-bakery
Object factory for Django (rename of legacy Model Mommy project)
django-fakery
An easy-to-use implementation of Creation Methods for Django, backed by Faker
drf-openapi-tester
Django test utility for validating Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 documentation
django-google-optimize
Django application designed to make running server side Google Optimize A/B tests easy
django-pattern-library
Pattern library generator for Django templates, to help testing of UI components
storybook-django
Develop Django UI components in isolation, with Storybook
Third-Party Packages / 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
Third-Party Packages / Users
django-allauth
Improved user registration including social auth
django-allauth-ui
Better looking templates for django-allauth
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)
django-guest-user
Allow visitors to use your site like a regular user and register later
Third-Party Packages / Views
django-braces
Reusable, generic mixins
django-easy-audit
Keep track of user actions
django-extra-views
Extra class-based generic views
django-vanilla-views
Simpler class-based views in Django
django-stronghold
Makes all your Django views default login_required
neapolitan
Quick CRUD views for Django
Python Packages
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
python-socketio
Python implementation of the Socket.IO_ realtime client and server
Ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
Resources / Official Resources
- Project Website
Official Django website
- Documentation
Comprehensive documentation for all Django versions
- Polls Tutorial
Build a polls tutorial while learning Django internals
Source Code
Hosted on GitHub
Resources / Educational
- Django Girls Tutorial
Use function-based views to build a blog app
- LearnDjango
Tutorials and premium courses on Django and Django REST Framework
- Adam Johnson
Adam is on the Technical Board of Django and regularly writes tutorials
- Photon Designer - Django tutorials
Django tutorials by Tom Dekan on how to build Django apps simply - from how to build an instant messenger with Django, add instant search, to using Google Drive as a database. Updated regularly
- TestDriven
Multiple Django-specific tutorials on topics like Docker, payments, and more
- Classy Class-Based Views
Detailed descriptions of methods/properties/attributes for each generic class-based view
Classy Django Forms
Detailed descriptions of methods/properties/attributes for each form class
- Classy Django REST Framework
Detailed descriptions with methods/attributes for DRF class-based views and serializers
- Simple is Better than Complex
Regularly updated website with many tutorials and tips on Django
- Full Stack Python's Django Page
Explanation of Django philosophy and links to other resources and tutorials
- RealPython
Many high-quality tutorials on Django
- Mozilla Tutorial
Create a lending library app
- Matt Layman
Regular tutorials and deep-dives on Django topics
Django Styleguide
Styleguide for Django with best practices and examples
- Django Template Tags and Filters
Additional docs on Django's 57 built-in template filters and 27 template tags
- Django for Everybody
A complete course for webdev beginners focused on Django
- CS50W
Harvard's University introductory course to web development, it explains Django as backend framework
Resources / Community
- Django Forum
Official Discourse board
- Community Page
Featuring feeds of Community Blog Posts, Jobs, and more
- Local Django Communities Page
Featuring local events all around the world
- Django Users Google Group
Very active discussion board for questions/answers
- Developers Google Group
For contributions to Django itself only
- Mastodon
For official announcements on updates, security fixes, etc
- X (formerly Twitter)
For official announcements on updates, security fixes, etc
- Discord Server
Django Discord Community
- Djangonaut Space
Free peer-mentoring program for the Django community to launch people into the universe of open source contributions
Resources / Conferences
- DjangoCon US
( )
- PyCon US
( )
- Euro Python
( )
Resources / Job Boards
- Django News Jobs
A Django job board that also aggregates other job boards
- Django Gigs
This platform caters specifically to freelance and full-time Django developers
- Django Jobs
Django jobs posting for hiring Django Python developers
- Python.org Job Boards
While not exclusively for Django, this job board is hosted by the official Python website and features a range of Python and Django-related job opportunities
Resources / Newsletters
- Django News
Weekly newsletter on announcements, articles, projects, and talks
Resources / 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
Resources / Videos
Resources / Books
Hosting / PaaS (Platforms-as-a-Service)
Hosting / IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
Projects / Boilerplate
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
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
launchr
Launchr is a specialized Django starter template for SaaS web apps
sidewinder
A Django starter kit that focuses on good defaults, developer experience, and deployment
Falco
Enhance your Django developer experience: CLI and Guides for the Modern Django Developer
Projects / Open Source Projects
pythonic-news
Hacker News clone
Zulip
Open-source team chat
Django-CRM
Open Source Python CRM based on Django
django-job-portal
Job portal application using Django
- Built with Django
Curated list of awesome Django projects
PostHog
Open-source product analytics
- HyperKitty
A web interface to access GNU Mailman v3 archives
Healthchecks
A Cron Monitoring Tool written in Python & Django
Flagsmith
Open-source Feature Flagging, Remote Config, and AB testing
OpenContracts
Enterprise-grade document analytics platform that combines automated PDF parsing, vector embeddings, and LLM integration
Django REST Framework / DRF Resources
Django REST Framework / DRF Tutorials
Wagtail / Wagtail Resources
- This week in Wagtail
A (most) weekly email with updates from the Wagtail core team
- Wagtail Space
Wagtail conferences around the world
- Wagtail events
Online and in-person Wagtail events
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