django-admin-boost

Drop-in replacement for django.contrib.admin that works with Jinja2 (and DTL). Ships standalone performance mixins you can use with the stock Django admin too.

Features

• Jinja2 admin templates — all 50 admin templates converted, with DTL fallback
• Full drop-in replacement — swap django.contrib.admin for django_admin_boost.admin and everything just works
• Standalone performance mixins — use ListOnlyFieldsMixin or EstimatedCountPaginator with stock Django admin, no full replacement needed
• list_only_fields — automatic .only() on changelist querysets
• Smart paginator — uses PostgreSQL's pg_class.reltuples for fast estimated counts on large tables

Quick Start

Full admin replacement (Jinja2)

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "django_admin_boost.admin",
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    ...
]

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2",
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "environment": "django_admin_boost.admin.jinja2_env.environment",
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
            ],
        },
    },
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
            ],
        },
    },
]

# admin.py
import django_admin_boost.admin as admin

@admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ["name", "status", "created_at"]
    list_only_fields = ["id", "name", "status", "created_at"]

Just the performance mixins (with stock Django admin)

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = ["django.contrib.admin", ...]

# admin.py
from django.contrib.admin import ModelAdmin
from django_admin_boost import ListOnlyFieldsMixin, EstimatedCountPaginator

class MyModelAdmin(ListOnlyFieldsMixin, ModelAdmin):
    list_only_fields = ["id", "name", "status"]
    paginator = EstimatedCountPaginator

Installation

pip install django-admin-boost

For Jinja2 support:

pip install django-admin-boost[jinja2]

Documentation

Full documentation at oliverhaas.github.io/django-admin-boost

License

MIT