what are 3 django packages everyone should know about?

• django-rest-framework

  34 26,657 8.5 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.

• whitenoise

  0 2,334 8.3 Python

  Radically simplified static file serving for Python web apps

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

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• django-crispy-forms

  0 4,812 7.0 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

• django-defender

  0 946 0.0 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.

• django-debug-toolbar

  4 7,691 8.3 Python

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

  

  django-debug-toolbar

• django-jazzmin

  2 1,379 2.6 HTML

  Jazzy theme for Django

  Django Jazzmin

• django-elasticsearch-dsl

  0 983 7.1 Python

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

  

  Django Elasticsearch DSL

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• django-webpack-loader

  0 2,479 7.6 Python

  Transparently use webpack with django

  

  Django Webpack Loader

• django-fsm

  0 2,274 0.0 Python

  Django friendly finite state machine support

  

  django-fsm - State management and transitions.

• django-ninja

  21 5,294 9.0 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.

• Wagtail

  4 16,316 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.

• django-post_office

  0 936 3.6 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.

• django-constance

  0 1,614 0.0 Python

  Dynamic Django settings.

  

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

• django-admin-honeypot

  0 964 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.

• django-health-check

  0 1,077 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.

• django-q

  2 1,765 0.0 Python

  A multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django

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

• django-components

  3 758 0.0 HTML

  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

• django-debugtools

  0 98 4.3 Python

  A toolbox of small utilities to assist Django development

  

  django-debugtools for its print templatetag

• django-compressor

  1 2,719 6.4 Python

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

  

  django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

• django-libsass

  0 263 0.0 Python

  A django-compressor filter to compile SASS files using libsass

  

  django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

• waitress

  0 1,315 5.7 Python

  Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3

  

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

• django-tables2

  1 1,748 7.3 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.

• django-db-queue

  1 155 0.0 Python

  Simple database-backed job queue

  

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

• Poe the Poet

  2 1,111 0.0 Python

  A task runner that works well with poetry.

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

• django-guardian

  3 3,477 0.0 Python

  Per object permissions for Django

  

  django-guardian for per object permissions

• sorl-thumbnail

  0 1,705 4.6 Python

  Thumbnails for Django

  

  Sorl Thumbnail

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