Batteries Included Django
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Our Current Requirements.txt
distribute>=0.6.28 mysql-python>=1.2.4 Django>=1.5 pillow south>=0.8,<2.0 sorl-thumbnail hamlpy requests>=1.0 djangorestframework>=2.3.4 unicodecsv # Django Enhancements django-extensions django-model-utils django-templated-email django-grappelli>=2.4.5 django-floppyforms django-filter django-braces # Datetime pytz iso8601 python-dateutil>=1.5,<2.0 # Deployment uwsgi Werkzeug fabric # Analytics numpy pandas
# Caching redis hiredis django-redis-cache johnny-cache # Django Compressor django-compressor>=1.3 lxml BeautifulSoup<4.0 cssmin slimit django-sekizai # Celery django-celery-with-redis django-celery-transactions # Social gdata google-api-python-client oauth2client django-social-auth>=0.7.22 facepy # Services mixpanel-celery>=0.6.0 raven>=3.0 lettuce>=0.2.18
Testing Requirements.txt
factory_boy>=1.3,<2.0 # Guard against potential 2.0 breaking changes
mock
# Nose
nose<1.3 # Nose 1.3 breaks test discovery somehow
django-nose
coverage
nose-exclude
nose-progressive>=1.4.1
nosexcover
yanc
xtraceback
# Validaiton
pep8
flake8
# Make sure you have Chromium installed (or appropriate for your dev platform)
splinter>=0.5 # Need 0.5 for PhantomJS support
selenium>=2.28 # Need 2.28 for PhantomJS support
Basic Includes for Just About Every Project
- Pillow (Image Manipulation)
- sorl-thumbnail (Thumbnail Generation)
- South (DB Migrations)
- Requests (HTTP client)
- Django-Rest-Framework* (ReST API endpoint)
DateTime Fixes
- pytz (Timezone support)
- iso8601 (date formatting)
- python-dateutil (parsing and translation)
- unicodecsv (Fixes encoding for CSV import/export)
*or Tastypie or Django-Piston, but DRF is way better
General Django Helpers
-
django-extensions
- runserver_plus + shell_plus management commands (Werkzeug Debugger)
- Useful generic model fields (CreationDateTimeField, etc)
- django-model-utils
- Improved Querysets (PassThroughManager, InheritanceManager)
-
django-braces
- CBV Mixins (instead of ugly decorators)
Django CRUD Helpers
- django-filter
- Don't write your own query string parameterizations
- django-floppyforms
- Better templates for django forms
-
import floppyforms as forms
Admin Tools
- django-grappelli (nicer skin)
- django-extensions (again)
- ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin makes admin useable for relations (search field instead of dropdown)
Batch Processing
Celery
- django-celery
- django-celery-transactions
- Delays task delivery until transactions commit to eliminate race conditions
- django-templated-email
- Template support for mail subjects, and HTML + Plain versions
Cleaner Frontend Code
- HamlPy (Template loader)
- More readable and concise html generation
- (Also more version control friendly since it's line based)
- Django Compressor
- Supports LessCSS and Coffeescript
- lxml, BeautifulSoup, cssmin, slimit for minification
- NPM Packages: less, jshint, recess, uglify-js, coffee-script
- django-sekizai
- Adding resources in template fragments on demand
Haml Templates
<p>A bunch of placeholder text about your company.</p>
<div class="actions">
<div class="action-container pull-left">
<a class="flat-button block-level call-to-action" href="{% url "join" %}">Join our Site!</a>
</div>
<div class="action-container pull-right">
<a class="flat-button block-level call-to-action" href="{% url "login" %}">Sign In</a>
</div>
</div>
%p
A bunch of placeholder text about your company.
.actions
.action-container.pull-left
%a.flat-button.block-level.call-to-action{'href': '{% url "join" %}'}
Join our Site!
.action-container.pull-right
%a.flat-button.block-level.call-to-action{'href': '{% url "login" %}'}
Sign In
Another Haml Template
<div class="product-information-container">
<div class="product-information">
<h4>
{% if headline %}{{ headline }}{% endif %}
{% if url %}
<p>
<p>
<a href="{{ url }}">{{ url|format_url }}</a>
</p>
</p>
{% endif %}
</h4>
{% if description %}
<p class="description">{{ description }}</p>
</div>
</div>
.product-information-container
.product-information
%h4
- if headline
= headline
- if url
%p
%a{'href': '={url}'}
= url|format_url
- if description
%p.description<
= description
Django Sekizai
Base Template
{% render_block "js" %}
{% render_block "js" postprocessor "compressor.contrib.sekizai.compress" %}
Included Fragment Example
- addtoblock "js"
%script{'type': 'text/javascript', 'src': '{% static "js/jquery/jquery.timeago.js" %}'}
- endaddtoblock "js"
Included Fragment Example (Coffeescript)
{% addtoblock "js" %}
<script type="text/coffeescript" src="{% static js/directives/date.coffee" %}"></script>
{% endaddtoblock "js" %}
Algorithmic/Data Science
- NumPy
-
Pandas
- Powerful data transformations (esp. for time series data)
Other Useful Libs
-
SciPy
- Algorithms galore
- NLTK (language processing + statistics primitives)
- PyMC (Bayesian inference)
Caching
- redis
- hiredis (faster bindings for redis)
- django-redis-cache (cache backend using redis)
- johnny-cache (transparent queryset caching)
APIs and Authentication
- django-social-auth (oauth consumers)
-
oauth2client
-
google-api-python-client
- gdata
- facepy
- mixpanel-celery
- raven (for Sentry)
Deployment
- Fabric (automation)
- uWSGi (WSGi container)
- Werkzeug (Lightweight WSGi framework)
Testing
- Factory-boy (Fixtures)
- mock (Mocking and Stubbing)
Feature Tests
- lettuce
- selenium (web browser automation)
- splinter (selenium wrapper)
Validation
- pep8 (coding standards)
- flake8 (static analysis)
Nose Plugins
- nose
- django-nose
- Nose based Test Runner for Django
- coverage
- Code Coverage
- nose-exclude
- Adds --exclude-dir= flags to skip certain dirs
- nose-progressive
- Progress bar for test runner
- nosexcover (worst package name ever)
- Code coverage for xunit results (for Jenkins)
- yanc
- Output Color-izer
- xtraceback
- Better Test Tracebacks
Questions?
The End
About the Author:
Kevin Stone is the CTO and Founder of Subblime
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Batteries Included Django
By Kevin Stone
Batteries Included Django
List of useful 3rd party python and django packages to help accelerate your django web app.
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