Django: Not reinventing the wheel

I wanted to share a list of django-projects that can be very useful when starting any new project. To, as they say, "do not reinvent the wheel."



From what I personally tried, I advise:

• sorl-thumbnail - to generate thumbnail images for ImageField , very conveniently, can do crop, change quality for jpg, look at the project site for details (all parameters are set directly through the template tag, so that the designers will not ask every time to change the size of the image to front end;
• django-registration - for automating the registration of users (checking email and so on), you will most likely be honed for yourself, so that you can use a file;
• django-tagging is a good implementation of tagging for jangi, but it needs some work in terms of optimizing database queries;
• django-template-utils - you can grab the useful code or use "as is" when working with templates, useful templates;

From what I did not try, but I advise readers to try:

• django-voting - rating system for content (works for any model);
• django-evolution - a new project for tracking changes to the base scheme (models); he did not test, but the reviews are good;
• django-atompub - for generating atom feeds (feeds), much more flexible than the standard jango, very good reviews;
• django-rest-interface — to create a ReST API , possibly for working with ajax ;
• typogrify - for processing input / output text (correct quotes, dashes, etc.); relevant only for English-language projects, our typography is different (read Lebedeva);
• django-localdates - for the correct localization of dates; I wonder how it works with Russian dates, who can test?

Separately. Ready for battle applications:

• ByteFlow - blogging , development of my friend, och advise (there is a migration script with wordpress).
• feedjack - application, feed aggregator on jang. Useful for community sites.
• webthumb-api - generation of thumbnails of real sites (by passing the link you get the picture).
• django-diario - blogger , did not watch the code, who tried or tried - write a comment about your impression.
• django-photologue - the photo gallery , also did not try, but judging by the description a rather “advanced” application (who tried it, write it off).
• Snapboard is a ready-made forum engine . Again, I didn’t try it; if you have any impressions, write.

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