what are 3 django packages everyone should know about?

1. django-rest-framework

   1 203 28,663 8.3 Python

   Web APIs for Django. 🎸

   

   A must know is Django Rest Framework and about what REST-API is. My favourite package (and the only one I am currently using) is Django Post Office! I never used Django Defender but I think it can be very useful.

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3. whitenoise

   2 9 2,577 8.4 Python

   Radically simplified static file serving for Python web apps

   

   Waitress - for serving your application easily (pairs very well with Whitenoise).

4. django-crispy-forms

   3 8 5,055 5.3 Python

   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.

   

   django-crispy-forms because the defaiçt forms are good for validation but bad at rendering html

5. django-defender

   4 2 1,053 6.3 Python

   A simple super fast django reusable app that blocks people from brute forcing login attempts

   

   A must know is Django Rest Framework and about what REST-API is. My favourite package (and the only one I am currently using) is Django Post Office! I never used Django Defender but I think it can be very useful.

6. django-debug-toolbar

   5 21 8,145 9.0 Python

   A configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.

   

   django-debug-toolbar

7. django-jazzmin

   6 9 1,680 8.0 HTML

   Jazzy theme for Django

   

   Django Jazzmin

8. django-elasticsearch-dsl

   7 2 1,034 2.1 Python

   This is a package that allows indexing of django models in elasticsearch with elasticsearch-dsl-py.

   

   Django Elasticsearch DSL

9. django-webpack-loader

   8 10 2,524 6.5 Python

   Transparently use webpack with django

   

   Django Webpack Loader

10. django-fsm

    9 3 2,315 4.1 Python

    Discontinued Django friendly finite state machine support

    

    django-fsm - State management and transitions.

11. django-ninja

    10 72 7,585 8.9 Python

    💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs

    django-ninja - Fully typed and pydantic driven API framework. Like FastAPI for Django.

12. Wagtail

    11 53 18,611 9.9 Python

    A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

    

    wagtail - CMS app and framework that supports API only setups out of the box.

13. django-post_office

    12 1 1,023 5.4 Python

    A Django app that allows you to send email asynchronously in Django. Supports HTML email, database backed templates and logging.

    

    A must know is Django Rest Framework and about what REST-API is. My favourite package (and the only one I am currently using) is Django Post Office! I never used Django Defender but I think it can be very useful.

14. django-constance

    13 3 1,733 8.1 Python

    Dynamic Django settings.

    

    django-constance - Set global values using the admin interface.

15. django-admin-honeypot

    14 2 1,039 0.0 Python

    :honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page.

    django-admin-honeypot - Move your default admin URL, and use this to track brute force attempts. Give you a heads up if your site has become a target.

16. django-health-check

    15 2 1,260 6.0 Python

    a pluggable app that runs a full check on the deployment, using a number of plugins to check e.g. database, queue server, celery processes, etc.

    

    django-health-check - Gives you a "health check" page you can visit to make sure various parts of your system are working. You can use this page to have something like UptimeRobot alert you if there is a problem.

17. django-q

    16 8 1,849 0.0 Python

    A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django

    django-q - Light weight task queue. When celery is too much over head.

18. django-components

    17 11 1,241 9.7 Python

    Create simple reusable template components in Django.

    I felt the ux around registering new components to be much stronger with https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components although I do like how slippers uses attributes

19. django-debugtools

    18 1 98 0.0 Python

    A toolbox of small utilities to assist Django development

    

    django-debugtools for its print templatetag

20. django-compressor

    19 6 2,812 6.0 Python

    Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.

    

    django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

21. django-libsass

    20 2 272 3.6 Python

    A django-compressor filter to compile SASS files using libsass

    

    django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

22. waitress

    21 3 1,467 7.8 Python

    Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3

    

    Waitress - for serving your application easily (pairs very well with Whitenoise).

23. django-tables2

    22 14 1,930 7.4 Python

    django-tables2 - An app for creating HTML tables

    

    django-tables2 - like crispy forms but for tables, abstracts away the need to render tables in a template.

24. django-db-queue

    23 5 176 6.7 Python

    Simple database-backed job queue

    

    django-db-queue: queue without needing redis, celery, etc.

25. Poe the Poet

    24 9 1,524 8.2 Python

    A task runner that works well with poetry.

    

    poe: Not Django-specific, but nice task-runner that uses pyproject.toml

26. django-guardian

    25 7 3,679 6.8 Python

    Per object permissions for Django

    

    django-guardian for per object permissions

27. sorl-thumbnail

    26 1 1,752 6.6 Python

    Thumbnails for Django

    

    Sorl Thumbnail

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