Awesome Django

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

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Third-Party Packages
- Admin
- APIs
- Async
- Caching
- Commands
- Configuration
- Content Management Systems
- Database Connectors
- ECommerce
- Editors
- Files/Images
- Forms
- Full-stack frameworks
- General
- Internationalisation
- Logging
- Mailing
- Model Fields
- Models
- Performance
- Permissions
- Search
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Security
- Static Assets
- Task Queues
- Templates
- Testing
- URLs
- Users
- Views
Python Packages
Resources
Hosting
- PaaS (Platforms-as-a-Service)
- IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
Projects
- Boilerplate
- Open Source Projects
Django REST Framework
- DRF Resources
- DRF Tutorials
Wagtail
- Wagtail Resources

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.
django-unfold - Modern Django admin theme for seamless interface development

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.

Async

channels - Async support for Django.
starlette - ASGI framework.

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.
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 Typer CLI library.

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.

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.

Content Management Systems

wagtail - Popular Django content management system (CMS). See awesome-wagtail too.
mezzanine - CMS framework.
django-cms - CMS for Django.
feincms - An extensible Django-based CMS.
puput - Blog app features with Wagtail.

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

django-ckeditor - Django admin CKEditor integration.
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.

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

django-bleach - Integrate bleach into forms and models. See django-nh3 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.

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.