Django - Curated List with popular extensions

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Hello Coders!

This article presents a curated list with Django Extensions that might help developers to code faster production-ready projects. For newcomers, Django is a leading web framework actively supported and versioned by programming experts across the globe. All extensions mentioned in this article are tested, open-source, and continuously improved.

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✨ Django Debug Toolbar

For newcomers, the Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that bumps various information about the current request/response when clicked.

👉 Django Debug Toolbar - official docs
👉 How to configure Django Debug Toolbar - a complete article

✨ Django Celery

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time task execution but supports scheduling as well. Using this library with Django, our projects can execute tasks in the background and improve the user experience.

👉 Execute Tasks With Django and Celery - a complete article

✨ Django Pandas

A popular Django extension that provides tools for working with pandas in your Django projects: convert database information to pandas, CSV files, and extract different metrics from data frames.

👉 Django Pandas - extension PyPi page
👉 How To Use Pandas Library in Django - a complete article

✨ Django Ninja

Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints-based framework for API development that competes nicely with his older brother Django DRF. Key features:

Easy: Designed to be easy to use and intuitive.
FAST execution powered by Pydantic and async support.
Fast to code: Type hints and automatic docs let you focus only on business logic.
Standards-based: Based on the open standards for APIs: OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema.

✨ Django HTMX

According to the htmx website this tool allows us to access AJAX, Server-Sent Events, and WebSockets directly in HTML, using attributes. Django-HTML represents the glue between Django and HTMX technology.

A nice feature of HTMX is when doing asynchronous calls to your backend, HTMX does not expect a JSON response but an HTML fragment response. For more resources about this topic, feel free to access: