Django CRUD Views

Managing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations is a common requirement in Django applications. While Django’s class-based views provide flexibility, implementing CRUD functionality often involves repetitive code.

Django CRUD Views simplifies this process by offering reusable, customizable class-based views that streamline CRUD operations. This package helps developers write cleaner, more maintainable code while keeping full control over their views.

This documentation provides everything you need to get started, from installation to advanced customization. Whether you're building a small project or a large application, Django CRUD Views can help you work more efficiently.

Features

• a collection of CrudViews for the same Django model whereas these views are aware of their sibling views
• such a collection is called a ViewSet
• linking to sibling views is easy, respecting Django's permission system
• designed for HTML
• built on top of Django's class-based generic views
• and Django's permission system
• uses these excellent packages:
  • django-tables2
  • django-filter
  • django-crispy-forms
  • django-polymorphic
  • django-ordered-model (optional)
  • django-fsm-2
  • django-object-detail
• ViewSets can be nested with deep URLs (multiple levels) if models are related via ForeignKey
• CrudViews are predefined for CRUD operations: list, create, update, delete, detail, up/down
• a ViewSet generates all urlpatterns for its CrudViews
• Themes are pluggable, so you can easily customize the look and feel to your needs, includes themes
  • bootstrap5 with Bootstrap 5 (default)
  • plain no CSS, minimal HTML and JavaScript (install crud_views_plain to override)
• Django system checks for configurations to fail early on startup

What it is not

• a replacement for Django's admin interface
• a complete page building system with navigations and lots of widgets

Version

Current version: 0.4.3