Awesome Django

A curated list of awesome things related to Django

Table of Contents

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

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 FBVs 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

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 - very complete and deployment-ready
• djangox - complete user auth with email/password, pipenv, and more
• edge - user auth and 12-factor recommended security
• demo-allauth-bootstrap - example of new project with django-allauth

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

Example Apps: Advanced

• Zulip - open-source team chat
• django-oscar - e-commerce for Django
• django-cms - CMS for Django

Django REST Framework

The most popular way to build web APIs with Django.

DRF Resources

• Official Documentation
• DRF Source Code

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-jwt - JSON web tokens for DRF
• django-rest-swagger - API document generator for Swagger UI

Books

• Django for Beginners: Learn web development with Django 2.0
• Hello Web App 2.0
• Django Design Patterns and Best Practices
• Building Django 2.0 Web Applications
• Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.11
• Build Your First Website with Python and Django 1.11
• Test-Driven Development with Python
• REST APIs with Django
• Django RESTful Web Services

Videos

• Treehouse
• Coding for Entrepreneurs
• GoDjango

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