What are your favorite general purpose Django apps?

Question

What are the apps that you consider part of your core toolset for Django projects (including those shipped with Django)? For example, I just discovered Migratory for database migration management: I just love it, and I wish something like that would be included in Django.

I took a look at DjangoPlugables.com and other such web sites, but it is difficult to filter out the popular and general purpose apps... so maybe here is the place!

One app per answer please, and +1 the ones you like.

Answer 1

Migratory for database migration.

Answer 2

djangosearch for searching content.

Answer 3

django-tagging. Easy to use and great quality!

Answer 4

django-registration for handling user registration

Answer 5

I think that Satchmo is going to be my new favourite as I'm slated to build an online storefront and e-commerce backend for a client.

Answer 6

django-command-extensions a collection of custom management extensions.

• The graph_models command alone is awesome.

Answer 7

The django-debug-toolbar: a debugging toolbar for Django with various panels of information (version, time, http headers, request variables, SQL queries, cache stats, used templates)

Answer 8

For a start look at the 3rd party apps that have been included in Pinax. They have all been fairly well vetted and it's a good indication that they are well maintained and follow good practices for reusability.

Answer 9

django-reversion: Full history and undo integrated nicely into the admin.

Answer 10

sorl.thumbnail: Very well thought out on-the-fly thumbnail creation.

Answer 11

Babeldjango for internationalization and localization.

Answer 12

django-pagination

Answer 13

South for intelligent schema migrations.

Answer 14

django-evolution for semi-automatic schema migrations.

Answer 15

django-simple-captcha for simple yet flexible CAPTCHA verification.

Answer 16

django-filebrowser for file uploads and automatic image thumbnail creation. Integrates nicely with TinyMCE file/image selection dialogs.

Answer 17

django-messaging for sending messages between users

Answer 18

GeoDjango really useful for user getting information related to user location

Answer 19

django comments. I didn't know commenting system was this easy.

Answer 20

We use fabric to deploy our application on our servers. This tool helps you to remotely run shell scripts or copy/rsync files. You write a fabfile.py that contains your commands, for example in our case : tag current svn trunk and rsync it on our staging server, launch tests, restart the webserver and fastcgi daemons, ...

Answer 21

haystack. Its a ORM like abstraction layer for search backends.

Answer 22

Django Piston a mini-framework for creating APIs.

Answer 23

Django-Photologue has solved all my image presentation, managing and resizing needs.

Answer 24

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. Really nice to make all your django code async (slow db call, email, external services...)