Bonus Django Documentation Sites

Classy Class-Based Views

Classy Class-Based Views is a class explorer for the class-based view (CBV) hierarchy in Django:

If you’re struggling to figure out what’s going on in your CBV’s, this is a real boon for navigating them. It was created by Charles Denton and Marc Tamlyn. It seems to be a little unmaintained at current, but the information within should still be fairly accurate since Django’s CBV’s don’t change often.

Whilst on the topic of CBV’s, I can’t help but mention django-vanilla-views:

This is a library that provides a simpler CBV hierarchy, with a comparison against Django’s built-in one. It was created by Tom Christie and I help maintain it.

Classy Django Forms

Classy Django Forms is a similar class explorer for Django’s forms and form fields:

It’s a project by Ana Balica, based on Classy Class-Based Views, and seems to be up to date with Django 3.0 at least.

Template Tags and Filters

Template Tags and Filters is a cheatsheet for Django’s template language:

It was made this year by Nat Dunn for his book Actionable Django, so should be up to date with at least Django 3.0.

Classy Django REST Framework

Classy Django REST Framework is yet another class explorer for some classes in Django REST Framework (DRF):

It currently lists DRF 3.9, whilst the latest version is 3.11, so it may be a little inaccurate. It was created by Vinta Software, based again upon Classy Class-Based Views.

awesome-django

For many other resources, check out the index in the awesome-django GitHub repo:

It’s maintained by Jeff Triplett and Will Vincent and has a ton of useful links.

Fin

I hope these help you dive into Django,

—Adam