django-jazzmin VS django-ninja

There are also alternative admin themes (e.g. https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin) that you might like, which would replace the whole look and feel.

You could use Jazzmin > https://django-jazzmin.readthedocs.io/, or you could move the project to Wagtail. You get a lot out of the box with Wagtail but it could be overkill for your project.

You could add some style to the to the admin with this app https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin/blob/master/docs/index.md

Instead, if you are looking for an admin replacement you could give a look to django-jazzmin (I’m not the author), it is a recent package and even if there are many issues it seems to be maintained (for now).

This is pretty good. However, there was another one that's been around a bit longer that's also really nice. See here: https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin

Django Jazzmin

One of my Favorite ones is Django-Jazzmin which is a drop-in app with plenty of things you can easily customize, including a built-in UI customizer.

I've been using Django Jazzmin. It's got some nuances that I've had to work around but it looks a lot better than the plain admin interface. It's more mobile friendly too but, again, not perfect.

Django Ninja [1], it forever changed how I write Django project, in a way so elegant and productive.

[1]: https://django-ninja.dev/

Django Ninja is a RESTful wrapper for Django, while UtilMeta Python Framework uses a more concise declarative ORM Schema for Django and other future-supporting ORMs like sqlachemy and Peewee to build RESTful APIs more efficiently, and supports not only Django but all Python mainstream frameworks like Django, Flask, Starlette, FastAPI, Sanic, Tornado, etc.

I can't recommend [django-ninja](https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja) enough. It's an easy to use, extremely fast, typed API for django. I've found it to be better in almost all aspects when compared to djangorestframework.

It's gaining popularity but is still widely unknown.

> The only place I really see Django at large companies is as an api using DRF or something.

This is not a bad thing. Using Django as an API backend is amazingly fast in terms of development time, especially with modern frameworks such as django-ninja [1].

Just use the built-in ORM to create models, write your endpoints, and use the built-in admin interface to play with the database if you don't have endpoints for everything.

There is also a less known feature of Django called admindocs [2], which automatically generates a human readable, hyperlinked documentation for your models and relations between them.

[1] https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/contrib/admin/admi...

Personally, I also prefer django-ninja to DRF.

Actually that's not fully true. If you mix async and sync codes in django-ninja there will be some errors. Where's the proof ? django-ninja doesn't support async auth

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Also recommend Django-Ninja. It basically reimplements fastapi's type and decorator-based API construction, but embedded directly in django so you have access to django's ORM and middleware library.