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

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Contents

• Third-Party Packages
  • Admin
  • APIs
  • Async
  • Caching
  • Commands
  • Configuration
  • Content Management Systems
  • Database Connectors
  • ECommerce
  • Editors
  • Files/Images
  • Forms
  • Full-stack frameworks
  • General
  • Logging
  • Model Fields
  • Models
  • Performance
  • Search
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Security
  • Static Assets
  • Task Queues
  • Testing
  • URLs
  • Users
  • Views
• Python Packages
• Resources
  • Official Resources
  • Educational
  • Community
  • Conferences
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasts
  • Books
• 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.

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.

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.

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

• 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.
• 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.

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

• 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).

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.

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

• django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
• django-watson - Full-text search plugin.
• django-admin-search - Modal filter for django admin.

Search Engine Optimisation

• django-check-seo - Check SEO of pages.

Security

• django-csp - Adds Content-Security-Policy headers to Django.
• django-feature-policy - Set the draft security HTTP header Feature-Policy 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.

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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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.
• 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 Sites - Comprehensive listing of sites built with Django.
• 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.

Community

• Django Forum - Official Discourse board.
• Community Page - Featuring feeds of Community Blog Posts, Jobs, and more.
• Django Users Google Group - Very active discussion board for questions/answers.
• Developers Google Group - For contributions to Django itself only.
• Twitter - For official announcements on updates, security fixes, etc.
• Discord Server - Django Discord Community.
• IRC Channel - Chat with other Django users at irc://irc.freenode.net/django.

Conferences

• DjangoCon US (YouTube Channel)
• DjangoCon Europe (YouTube Channel)
• DjangoCon AU
• DjangoCon Africa
• Django Day Copenhagen
• PyCon US (YouTube Channel)
• PyCon Australia (YouTube Channel)
• Euro Python (YouTube Channel)
• Django Under the Hood
• Complete listing of all PyCons globally

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 for Beginners: Build websites with Python and Django

Django 4.0

• Boost Your Django DX
• Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django
• Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python and Django
• Django 4 By Example: Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

Django 3.2

• Speed Up Your Django Tests
• Two Scoops of Django 3.x: Best Practices for the Django Web Framework
• A Wedge of Django: Covers Python 3.8 and Django 3.x

Hosting

PaaS (Platforms-as-a-Service)

• Appliku
• Dokku
• Divio
• Fly
• Google Cloud
• Heroku
• Microsoft Azure
• Platform.sh
• PythonAnywhere
• Railway
• Render
• Vercel

IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

• Digital Ocean
• Linode
• Amazon Lightsail
• Hetzner

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

• Blog app with users and forms
• Newspaper app with custom user model, full user auth
• pythonic-news - Hacker News clone.
• Behavior-Driven Development with Aloe
• Image Sharing Blog
• Bootcamp: An enterprise social network
• 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.

Django REST Framework

The most popular way to build web APIs with Django.

DRF Resources

• Official Documentation
• DRF Source Code
• awesome-django-rest-framework

DRF Tutorials

• Official REST Framework - A Beginner's Guide
• Building APIs with Django and DRF
• DRF with React
• Making React and Django play well together

Wagtail

Wagtail, the powerful CMS for modern websites.

Wagtail Resources

• Official Documentation
• Wagtail Source Code
• awesome-wagtail
• This week in Wagtail - A (most) weekly email with updates from the Wagtail core team.
• Wagtail Space - Wagtail CMS events around the world.