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wsvincent/awesome-django
A curated list of awesome things related to Django
A well-maintained reference list of Django packages, tools, tutorials, and community resources. Maintained by two active Django community members (Will Vincent and Jeff Triplett), so it stays reasonably current. Useful as a starting point when evaluating the Django ecosystem for a new project.
The categorization is genuinely useful — splitting out admin themes, task queues, full-stack reactive frameworks, and permission libraries into separate sections means you can navigate to what you need without scrolling forever. Coverage of the reactive/LiveView space (Unicorn, Reactor, ReactPy, Django-Bridge) reflects where the ecosystem has been moving, not just the 2018 defaults. The maintainers have pruned dead projects rather than letting the list rot — notable absences include libraries that died quietly. There's a CI lint step and pre-commit config, which is more rigor than most awesome-lists bother with.
No quality signal per entry — django-mptt (barely maintained, largely superseded by django-treebeard) sits next to actively developed libraries with no distinction. The async section is a single entry (Channels) despite async Django having grown significantly since Channels was the only option. Several entries link to PyPI or project websites rather than GitHub, making it harder to check maintenance status at a glance. The boilerplate section includes djangox pointing to 'lithium' which is a renamed fork of the author's own starter — not labeled as such, which is a mild conflict of interest.