Django Boilerplate

Hello Coders,

In this article, I will present a short-list with open-source Django Boilerplate Code which might help you start fast a new Django project by reusing some valuable work provided by open-source enthusiasts.

For newcomers, Django is an opinionated framework that provides a complete set of tools for web development, from URL routing to form handling and user authentication. It promotes best practices in web development through its structure and conventions, encouraging developers to write maintainable and scalable code.

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Django Datta Able

Open-source Django project crafted on top of Datta Able Dashboard, an open-source Bootstrap design.
The product is designed to deliver the best possible user experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages.

• 👉 Django Datta Able - Product Page
• 👉 Django Datta Able - LIVE Demo

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• Simple, Easy-to-Extend Codebase
• Datta Able Design Integration
• Dynamic Tables - generate data tables without coding
• Dynamic API - expose secure APIs without coding
• CLI for Coding Tasks
  • Commit/rollback Git Changes
  • Backup & restore DB
  • Interact with Django Core via CLI
  • Update Environment variables
  • Update Dependencies
• Bootstrap 5 Styling
• Session-based Authentication, Password recovery
• DB Persistence: SQLite (default), can be used with MySql, PgSql
• Docker, CI/CD for Render
• Vite for assets management

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Django Rocket

Open-source Django Template styled with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite.The product is designed to deliver the best possible developer experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages.

A common set of features is provided out-of-the-box: API, DataTables, Charts, Extended User Model, and Docker Support under a permissive MIT License (unrestricted usage in hobby or commercial projects).

• 👉 Django Rocket - Product Page
• 👉 Django Rocket - LIVE Demo

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• Styling: Tailwind CSS/Flowbite
• Extended User Model
• Charts via ApexJS
• Dynamic Tables - generate data tables without coding
• Dynamic API - expose secure APIs without coding
• Can be used with SQLite, MySql, PostgreSQL, MsSql
• Docker
• CI/CD Integration with Render

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Django AdminLTE

Open-source Django project crafted on top of AdminLTE, an open-source and iconic Bootstrap design.
The product is designed to deliver the best possible user experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages.

• 👉 Django AdminLTE - Product page
• 👉 Django AdminLTE - LIVE Demo
• 👉 Django AdminLTE - Complete Information and Support Links

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Django Material Kit

Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Material Kit 2 is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. Material Kit 2 is built with over 60 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

• 👉 Django Material Kit - Product page
• 👉 Django Material Kit - LIVE App

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Django Dashboard Material

Material Dashboard is a free Material Bootstrap 4 Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design. Material Dashboard comes with 5 color filter choices for both the sidebar and the card headers (blue, green, orange, red and purple) and an option to have a background image on the sidebar.

• 👉 Django Dashboard Material - Product page
• 👉 Django Dashboard Material - LIVE App

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Django Boilerplate Soft UI

Open-source Django Dashboard crafted on top of Soft UI Dashboard, an open-source Bootstrap 5 design from Creative-Tim.

Soft UI Dashboard is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

• 👉 Soft UI Dashboard Django - Product page
• 👉 Soft UI Dashboard Django - LIVE Demo

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Django Black Dashboard

Black Dashboard is a beautiful Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard with a huge number of components built to fit together and look amazing. It combines colors that are easy on the eye, spacious cards, beautiful typography, and graphics.

• 👉 Black Dashboard Django - Product page
• 👉 Black Dashboard Django - LIVE Demo

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Cookiecutter Django

This popular Django starter is powered by Cookiecutter a command-line utility that creates projects from project templates.

Features

• Django LTS / Python3
• Theme-able
• Deployment scripts: Heroku, PythonAnywhere

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DjangoX

A framework for launching new Django projects quickly. It comes with a custom user model, email/password authentication, options for social authentication via Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc, and static assets.

Starter Stats

• Stars (570), Forks (105)
• License MIT

Features

• For Django 2.2 and Python 3.7
• Modern virtual environments with pipenv
• Styling with Bootstrap v4.1.3
• Custom user model
• Email/password for log in/sign up instead of Django's default - username/email/password pattern
• Social authentication via django-allauth
• django-debug-toolbar

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Django Hackathon Starter

A boilerplate application for Django web applications.

Starter Stats

• Stars (1.4k), Forks (272)
• License MIT

Features

• User Registration
• Integration with Django Rest Framework
• Basic Authentication with username and password
• OAuth 1.0a, OAuth 2.0 (Github, LinkedIn, Instagram)
• API Examples (Github, LinkedIn, Instagram)

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Django React Boilerplate

Starter Stats

• Stars (700), Forks (152)
• License MIT

Features

A Django project boilerplate/template with lots of state of the art libraries and tools like:

• React, for building interactive UIs
• django-js-reverse, for generating URLs on JS
• Bootstrap 4, for responsive styling
• Webpack, for bundling static assets
• Celery, for background worker tasks
• WhiteNoise with brotlipy, for efficient static files serving
• Free support via Github and Commercial for custom projects

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Django Gentelella Template

A simple and popular Django starter with Gentelella UI Kit integrated.

Starter Stats

• Stars (270), Forks (129)
• License MIT

Features

• Basic Authentication (username and password)
• SQLite database
• Simple structure, suitable for beginners

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Thanks for reading! For more resources, feel free to access:

• ✨ More Free Dashboards crafted in Django, Flask, and React
• ✨ More Admin Dashboards - a huge index with products

Comments

[Nikita Sobolev]

You forgot to mention github.com/wemake-services/wemake-... !

Features

• Always up-to-date with the help of @dependabot
• Supports latest python3.7+
• poetry for managing dependencies
• mypy and django-stubs for static typing
• pytest and hypothesis for unit tests
• flake8 and wemake-python-styleguide for linting
• docker for development, testing, and production
• sphinx for documentation
• Gitlab CI with full build, test, and deploy pipeline configured by default
• Caddy with https and http/2 turned on by default

wemake-services / wemake-django-template

Bleeding edge django template focused on code quality and security.

wemake-django-template

Bleeding edge django2.2 template focused on code quality and security.

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Purpose

This project is used to scaffold a django project structure Just like django-admin.py startproject but better.

Features

• Always up-to-date with the help of @dependabot
• Supports latest python3.7+
• poetry for managing dependencies
• mypy and django-stubs for static typing
• pytest and hypothesis for unit tests
• flake8 and wemake-python-styleguide for linting
• docker for development, testing, and production
• sphinx for documentation
• Gitlab CI with full build, test, and deploy pipeline configured by default
• Caddy with https and http/2 turned on by default

Installation

Firstly, you will need to install dependencies:

pip install cookiecutter jinja2-git

Then, create a project itself:

cookiecutter gh:wemake-services/wemake-django-template

Who are using this template?

If you use our template, please add yourself or your company in the list.

We offer free email support for anyone who is using this If you have any problems or questions,…

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[rahul shukla]

it's very important for beginners. Thanks for sharing.

[Sm0ke]

With pleasure ..

[Krishan111]

Sir can you tell me that which library is ideal to send mails through django smtplib or send_mail.
Thanks

[Ousseynou Diop]

Very interesting!

[Kwami Kudjie]

Thanks for sharing this

[Sm0ke]

Yw!

[ohduran]

Hey, you might want to have a look at this one: github.com/ohduran/cookiecutter-re..., it includes all the necessary pieces to jumpstart a React + Django project on Heroku!