WTForms VS django-crispy-forms

Compare WTForms vs django-crispy-forms and see what are their differences.

WTForms

A flexible forms validation and rendering library for Python. (by wtforms)

django-crispy-forms

The best way to have DRY Django forms. The app provides a tag and filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format while providing an enormous amount of capability to configure and control the rendered HTML. (by django-crispy-forms)
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WTForms django-crispy-forms
5 8
1,454 4,895
0.4% 0.7%
8.4 5.6
7 days ago 22 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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WTForms

Posts with mentions or reviews of WTForms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.
  • Using HTML5 fields with WTForms
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 15 Mar 2022
    I then ended up on the WTForms github page, and found that actually there is support for all the new HTML5 fields, but that these fields aren't imported by default. https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms/blob/master/wtforms/fields/html5.py Therefore instead of using

django-crispy-forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-crispy-forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WTForms and django-crispy-forms you can also consider the following projects:

django-bootstrap4 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.

marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.

Deform - A Python HTML form library.

flask-wtf - Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

crispy-tailwind - A Tailwind template pack for django-crispy-forms

crispy-bootstrap5 - Bootstrap5 template pack for django-crispy-forms

django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.

WTForms-JSON - Adds smart json support for WTForms. Useful for when using WTForms with RESTful APIs.

django-rest-framework - Web APIs for Django. 🎸