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Top 23 Python Django Projects
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I am maintaining a Python codebase that is based on Django and Django REST Framework (DRF). The codebase uses Nix for development, testing, CI/CD and packaging.
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Project mention: Monitoramento de Erros com Sentry no React + Vite: Guia Completo | dev.to | 2025-05-08
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Django’s "batteries-included" philosophy makes it an excellent choice for API development. With Django REST Framework (DRF), you get:
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jumpserver
JumpServer is an open-source Privileged Access Management (PAM) tool that provides DevOps and IT teams with on-demand and secure access to SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, Database and RemoteApp endpoints through a web browser.
Try JumpServer:
https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
Its an open-source PAM solution
We're not using it in-house (we're actually using teleport), and I haven't tried it, but I've heard many good things about it
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paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Project mention: Paperless-ngx: scan, index and archive all your physical documents | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-30 -
I created a new ImageBlock with full backward compatibility with the ImageChooserBlock, hence removing the need for data migration.
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Installation
The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/free-netbox-cloud/
Look at the issue list...that is why.
https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues?q=is%3Aiss...
Note how they want to be "NetBox functions as the source of truth for your network infrastructure."
Your individual situation dictates what is important, but had netbox targeted being a central repository vs insisting on not allow other systems to be truthful for certain items it could be a different story.
We have learned that trying to centralize complexity and control doesn't work, heck we knew that almost immediately after the Clinger Cohen Act passed and even ITIL and TOGAF fully call this out now and I expect this to be targeted by consultants over the next few years.
You need a central constant way to find state, to remove any questions or doubt regarding where to find the authoritative information, but generally if you aspire to scale and grow or adapt to new changes you really need to avoid having some centralized, god-box, and prescriptive system like this.
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awx
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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cookiecutter-django
Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
I found that this django setup was an excellent starting point:
https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
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Project mention: Introducing Django Headless CMS: A Powerful and Flexible CMS Solution | dev.to | 2024-06-20
Why choose Django-headless-cms over alternatives like Wagtail, Django-CMS, Strapi, or Contentful?
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Open Source: I'm excited at the prospect of contributing directly to Django, since JetBrains are big contributors in both dollars and time, to the Python community. There are open Django tickets to my name around documentation and user authentication that I plan to tackle this year. And I continue to maintain the awesome-django repo and the lithium Django starter project.
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django-allauth
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Project mention: Creating a To-Do app with Django and HTMX - Part 1: Creating the Django project with uv | dev.to | 2025-01-01Later we may want to incorporate django-allauth in the project, but we want to keep it simple and have something up and running soon, so let's just create an app called core, create a UserProfile class inheriting from AbstractUser, and set our project to use this class as its authentication model.
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Healthchecks
Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django
Set up a lightweight monitoring endpoint like healthchecks.io. You’ll be given a URL to ping at the end of your script:
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If you're looking for a mixture of the two, there's Django Ninja: https://django-ninja.dev
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librephotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
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Project mention: Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-21
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Recipes
Application for managing recipes, planning meals, building shopping lists and much much more!
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Localization is challenging because it requires synchronisation between the product and developer teams. Many solutions exist to provide online localisation services supporting various input formats such as GNU gettext and ResX files. But a strong requirement, the code should not leave the company’s premises, removed almost all available solutions. Not to mention that they were also quite expensive. Weblate on the other hand combines the advantages of being free and self-hosted. The code would not have to leave the premises, and support is affordable.
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Project mention: I Created API Docs for 5 Open-source Projects Within 10 Minutes | dev.to | 2024-12-25
InvenTree: An open-source inventory management system that provides powerful low-level stock control and part tracking.
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authlib
The ultimate Python library in building OAuth, OpenID Connect clients and servers. JWS,JWE,JWK,JWA,JWT included.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Django projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Django | 83,480 |
| 2 | Sentry | 40,843 |
| 3 | django-rest-framework | 29,117 |
| 4 | jumpserver | 27,590 |
| 5 | paperless-ngx | 27,390 |
| 6 | Wagtail | 19,216 |
| 7 | Installation | 17,519 |
| 8 | awx | 14,592 |
| 9 | cookiecutter-django | 12,750 |
| 10 | Zappa | 11,884 |
| 11 | django-cms | 10,440 |
| 12 | awesome-django | 10,240 |
| 13 | doccano | 9,971 |
| 14 | django-allauth | 9,943 |
| 15 | Healthchecks | 8,886 |
| 16 | django-ninja | 8,110 |
| 17 | librephotos | 7,304 |
| 18 | pyinstrument | 7,058 |
| 19 | django-oscar | 6,388 |
| 20 | Recipes | 6,289 |
| 21 | Weblate | 5,079 |
| 22 | InvenTree | 4,965 |
| 23 | authlib | 4,823 |
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