For the last few months, I have used the Django + Adam Johnson + Carlton Gibson + Oliver Andrich stack, or what I’m calling the DACO stack. Maybe the DjACO stack rolls off the tongue more easily.
The DACO stack combines new Django tech with wrappers around libraries like Heroicons, TailwindCSS, and htmx, which integrates a nice modern front-end development experience with Django.
carltongibson/neapolitan
The Neapolitan project brings CRUD views to Django in what feels like a marriage between the Django Admin meets Django Rest Framework’s model viewsets but focused on the front-end. Neapolitan gives you CRUD views for your application in a few lines of Python code.
I have used it on several projects where I wanted to quickly build a front end around some data and give a limited number of people access to help maintain it.
adamchainz/django-htmx
Adam’s django-htmx adds htmx support to Django.
https://github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx
carltongibson/django-template-partials
Carlton’s django-template-partials project helps create reusable inline template blocks. When paired with django-htmx, we can render a form, search results, and individual table rows without rewriting the web page.
https://github.com/carltongibson/django-template-partials
adamchainz/heroicons
Adam brings the Heroicons library to Django, a series of SVG images that are nice for navigation menus and anywhere you might want to embed an icon image quickly. Heroicons is one of my goto libraries for quickly adding extra polish for apps that I might normally fall back to boring text links.
https://github.com/adamchainz/heroicons
oliverandrich/django-tailwind-cli
Oliver’s django-tailwind-cli project integrates Tailwind CSS
into Django, includes a live reload server, and enables python manage.py tailwind to work.
https://github.com/oliverandrich/django-tailwind-cli
Conclusion
Try the DACO stack and let me know if it saves you time and if you find some new tools to add to it.
