Django Channels Channels augments Django to bring WebSocket, long-poll HTTP, task offloading and other async support to your code, using familiar Django design patterns and a flexible underlying framework that lets you not only customize behaviours but also write support for your own protocols and needs. Documentation, installation and getting started instructions are at https://channels.readthedocs.io Channels is an official Django Project and as such has a deprecation policy. Details about what’s deprecated or pending deprecation for each release is in […]

django-tastypie Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010. Currently in beta but being used actively in production on several sites. Requirements Core Python 2.7+ or Python 3.4+ (Whatever is supported by your version of Django) Django 1.11, 2.2 (LTS releases) or Django 3.0 (latest release) dateutil (http://labix.org/python-dateutil) >= 2.1 Format Support Optional What’s It Look Like? A basic example looks like: # myapp/api.py # ============ from tastypie.resources import ModelResource from myapp.models import Entry class EntryResource(ModelResource): class Meta: queryset = […]

drf-yasg – Yet another Swagger generator Generate real Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 specifications from a Django Rest Framework API. Compatible with Django Rest Framework: 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 Django: 2.2, 3.0, 3.1 Python: 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 Only the latest patch version of each major.minor series of Python, Django and Django REST Framework is supported. Only the latest version of drf-yasg is supported. Support of old versions is dropped immediately with the release of a new version. Please do not create issues before […]

django-webpack-loader Read http://owaislone.org/blog/webpack-plus-reactjs-and-django/ for a detailed step by step guide on setting up webpack with django using this library. Use webpack to generate your static bundles without django’s staticfiles or opaque wrappers. Django webpack loader consumes the output generated by webpack-bundle-tracker and lets you use the generated bundles in django. Compatibility Test cases cover Django>=2.0 on Python>=3.5. 100% code coverage is the target so we can be sure everything works anytime. It should probably work on older version of django […]

Simple JWT A JSON Web Token authentication plugin for the Django REST Framework Abstract Simple JWT is a JSON Web Token authentication plugin for the Django REST Framework. For full documentation, visit django-rest-framework-simplejwt.readthedocs.io. Looking for Maintainers For more information, see here. GitHub https://github.com/jazzband/djangorestframework-simplejwt    

Djaq Djaq – pronounced “Jack” – provides an instant remote API to your Django models data with a powerful query language. No server-side code beyond two lines of config is required. You don’t write backend classes, serializers or any other code to be able to immediately get whatever data you want to the client. And it is blazing fast. Djaq queries are strings. A query string for our example dataset might look like this: (b.name as title, b.publisher.name as publisher) […]

django-rest-knox Authentication Module for django rest auth Knox provides easy to use authentication for Django REST Framework The aim is to allow for common patterns in applications that are REST based, with little extra effort; and to ensure that connections remain secure. Knox authentication is token based, similar to the TokenAuthentication built in to DRF. However, it overcomes some problems present in the default implementation: DRF tokens are limited to one per user. This does not facilitate securely signing in […]

A Django App that adds Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers to responses. This allows in-browser requests to your Django application from other origins. About CORS Adding CORS headers allows your resources to be accessed on other domains. It’s important you understand the implications before adding the headers, since you could be unintentionally opening up your site’s private data to others. Requirements Python 3.6 to 3.9 supported. Django 2.2 to 3.2 supported. Are your tests slow? Check out my book Speed […]