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Awesome Django – A curated list of awesome Django apps and projects

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Just to add my 2p. These are the packages I install every time I start a project in Django. I know some are not strictly Django but they make Django awesome!

Fabric: for deployment Sphinx: the only way to write documentation Sphinx RTD Theme: because the default them looks outdated. Django Nose: No need to explain this one! Pillow: because it's better! Django-class-based-auth-views: class based views to reset orgotten passwords by email confirmation. django-storages:

Those do make Django awesome! :) I myself use Fabric, Spinx and Pillow for almost every project. Django Nose is now in the list, the rest you mentioned are in the Awesome Python list at https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python, cheers!

Nice to have this in one place. South is on the list - don't use this for new projects, upgrade to Django 1.7 instead, that has migrations built in.

Thanks! These are most of the apps that have saved my neck over the years :) Agreed on South, will remove it once Django 1.7 comes out.

I noticed django-sendfile on the list but I personally prefer https://github.com/benoitbryon/django-downloadview now. Until very recently, django-sendfile didn't support python3. django-downloadview also works with storages, and allows you to serve files with the development server based on rules.

I didn't knew about django-downloadview! I'll add it to the list, thanks!

Done: https://github.com/rosarior/awesome-django/commit/d55b73adcd... Thanks!

Any recommendation for a notifications framework that supports multiple backends? I would also like to have the notifications saved in the database. Is there a standard out there for this type of action?

Have you not looked at django-notifications? (https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications)

I have. From what I have seen, it does not support e-mail notifications out of the box.

I've found this to be pretty big deal. There are a couple of projects like django-notifications, but I think it only serves half. Notifications is something that almost every web app you build has be it. I've built two different notification systems which support different backends.

I'm thinking of giving it a try to create an open source django notifications project which supports different backends, aggregation, de-duplication, user notifications, activity feed. Seems like pretty ambitious but I think it can be built generic enough to work in multiple projects, at least that was what I've encountered so far.

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