django-eadmin

django-eadmin is a reusable, server-rendered Django administration interface using Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, HTMX, and Alpine.js. It retains Django's built-in authentication, model permissions, forms, and audit-log semantics.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• Django 5.1 or 5.2
• Django's admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions, messages, and staticfiles applications

Install

python -m pip install django-eadmin

Add EAdmin before applications that register models:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "eadmin",
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    "django.contrib.sessions",
    "django.contrib.messages",
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    "articles",  # Contains articles/eadmin.py.
]

Run the standard Django setup commands:

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser

Routes

EAdmin follows Django Admin's familiar public API:

from django.urls import path
from eadmin import admin

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
]

If native Django Admin must remain available, mount the two sites on different prefixes:

from django.contrib import admin as django_admin
from django.urls import path
from eadmin import admin as eadmin_admin

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", eadmin_admin.site.urls),
    path("django-admin/", django_admin.site.urls),
]

Register models

Create an eadmin.py beside models.py in an installed application:

from eadmin import admin
from eadmin.registry import ModelAdmin
from .models import Article

admin.site.register(Article, ModelAdmin(
    list_display=("title", "state", "updated_at"),
    list_filter=("state",),
    search_fields=("title",),
    fields=("title", "state", "body", "tags"),
))

EAdmin autodiscovers each installed application's eadmin.py at Django startup. It supports list columns, filtering, search, ordering, readonly fields, fieldsets, relationship widgets, actions, inlines, and custom model views.

Permissions

EAdmin never grants access through its configuration. Users must be active, staff, and have Django's standard view, add, change, or delete model permissions. Superusers retain normal Django access. These checks apply to menus, lists, forms, object actions, bulk actions, and inline formsets.

Bundled browser dependencies

All browser assets are included in the installed package; EAdmin makes no runtime CDN requests.

See the source repository for source code and issue tracking.