Awesome Django

A curated list of awesome things related to Django.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Resources
  • Official Resources
  • General Tutorials
  • Deployment Tutorials
  • External Resources
  • Starter Projects
  • Example Apps: Beginner
  • Example Apps: Advanced
  • Docker
• Django REST Framework
  • Resources
  • General Tutorials
  • DRF and React Tutorials
  • Starter Projects
  • Example Apps
• Third-Party Packages
• Books
• Videos
  • Free
  • Paid

Resources

Official Resources

• Django Official Website
• Django Documentation
• Django Polls Tutorial
• Django Source Code

General Tutorials

• Django for Beginners - Build 3 apps from scratch: Hello World, Pages, and Message Board
• Django Girls Tutorial - Use function-based views to build a blog app
• Mozilla Tutorial - Create a lending library app
• A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django - In-depth and excellent walkthrough of a new Django app
• Build a HackerNews clone - Very well-done tutorial for Django 2.0.

Deployment Tutorials

• Storing Django Static and Media Files on Amazon S3

External Resources

• Classy Class-Based Views - Detailed descriptions for each generic class-based view.
• Django Packages - Comprehensive directory of reusable Django apps and tools.
• William Vincent's Website - Up-to-date tutorials on Django and Django REST Framework.
• Simple is Better than Complex - Regularly updated website with many tutorials and tips on Django.
• Full Stack Python's Django Page - Explanation of Django philosophy and links to other resources and tutorials.

Starter Projects

• cookiecutter-django - A full-bodied starter project, highly customizable.
• djangox - Comes with complete user registration, email/password, Pipenv, and more.
• django-starter-project - A deliberately simple project that has multiple staging environments and Heroku deployment config.

Example Apps: Beginner

• Hello, World app
• Message Board app
• Blog app with users and forms
• Newspaper app with custom user model, full user auth
• Behavior-Driven Development with Aloe
• Image Sharing Blow

Example Apps: Advanced

• wagtail - Very popular Django-based content management system
• Zulip - Open-source team chat
• django-oscar - E-commerce for Django
• django-cms - CMS for Django
• saleor - E-commerce storefront

Docker

Docker is commonly used to work with production-level databases locally like PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• A Beginner's Guide to Docker
• A Brief Intro to Docker for Djangonauts
• How to use Django, Docker, and PostgreSQL
• Docker for Django Developers (slides)
• Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Nginx

Django REST Framework

The most popular way to build web APIs with Django.

DRF Resources

• Official Documentation
• DRF Source Code
• DRF

DRF Tutorials

• Official REST Framework - A Beginner's Guide
• DRF Blog API
• Building APIs with Django and DRF
• DRF Serializers, Viewsets, and Routers
• DRF Todo API with User Auth
• DRF User Authentication

DRF and React Tutorials

• DRF with React: Todo API
• DRF with React
• Making React and Django play well together

DRF Starter Projects

• DRFx

DRF Example Apps

• DRF Polls - API of the official Django polls tutorial
• DRF Blog - Basic Blog API
• ECGC - Example from DjangoCon 2017 talk Write an API for Almost Anything

Third-Party Packages

For a complete listing of all available packages, see Django Packages

• django-allauth - User registration, social authentication, account management, and more.
• django-compressor - Compress JavaScript/CSS into a single cached file
• django-crispy-forms - DRY Django forms
• django-debug-toolbar - Configurable panels to debug requests/responses
• django-environ - Environment variables
• django-extensions - Custom management extensions, notably runserver_plus and shell_plus
• django-filter - Powerful filters based on Django QuerySets
• django-guardian - Per object permissions in Django
• django-hijack - Admins can log in and work on behalf of other users without having to know their credentials
• django-model-utils - Django model mixins and utilities
• django-silk - Live profiling and inspection of HTTP requests and database queries
• django-storages - A single library to support multiple custom storage backends for Django
• django-tables2 - HTML tables with pagination/sorting
• django-test-plus - Useful additions to Django's default TestCase
• easy-thumbnails - Image thumbnails for Django
• pytest-django - Use pytest features in Django
• wagtail - Popular Django content management system (CMS)
• whitenoise - Simplified static file serving for Python websites

Django Rest Framework specific packages

• django-rest-auth - REST API endpoints for authentication and registration
• django-rest-framework - Web APIs for Django
• django-rest-framework-simplejwt - JSON web tokens for DRF
• django-rest-swagger - API document generator for Swagger UI

Books

Django 2.1

• Django for Beginners: Build websites with Python and Django
• REST APIs with Django: Build web APIs with Python and Django
• Build Your First Website with Django 2.1

Django 2.0

• Hello Web App 2.0
• Django Design Patterns and Best Practices
• Building Django 2.0 Web Applications
• Django RESTful Web Services

Django 1.11

• Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.11
• Test-Driven Development with Python

Videos

Free

• Django 2.1 Authentication Tutorial by Vitor Freitas
• Build a Startup with Django 2.1 by CSDojo
• Django 2.0 Blog Tutorial by Corey Schafer
• Django 1.11 Todo App by Traversy Media
• Django Crash Course by Traversy Media
• Django 1.9 Web Development by Harrison Kinsley
• Effective Django (2013)

Paid

• GoDjango
• Coding for Entrepreneurs
• Udemy:
  • Django 2 & Python
  • Python Django Dev to Deployment
  • Build a Django eCommerce Application

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