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dennisivy/crash-course-CRM
Django customer management platform
A Django tutorial project built to accompany a YouTube crash course, covering the basics of models, views, forms, and templates through a simple CRM with customers, products, and orders. It is for beginners learning Django, not for anyone building something they plan to ship.
The scope is appropriate for a tutorial — three models, clean FK relationships, django-filter wired up correctly, no overengineering. The README was updated to reflect a Django 4.2 LTS upgrade from the original 2.1, which shows the repo is at least maintained enough to not sit on a CVE-riddled version. The project structure is textbook Django app layout, which is genuinely useful for someone learning where things go.
The secret key is hardcoded in settings.py and the README admits it — that habit kills beginners in production before they know what hit them. There is no authentication on any view; anyone who can reach the server can create, update, and delete everything. SQLite with no migration path means anyone who follows this to 'just one more feature' hits a wall the moment they want concurrent writes or want to deploy. The data model is so minimal (Customer has name, phone, email and nothing else) that there is nothing here to learn from about real-world schema design.