django-powercrud 0.4.13

Advanced CRUD for perfectionists with deadlines. An opinionated Neapolitan extension, with sprinkles.

Django PowerCRUD

Advanced CRUD for perfectionists with deadlines. An opinionated extension of Neapolitan.

PowerCRUD builds on Neapolitan’s view layer and adds the practical pieces you would otherwise wire up by hand.

Why PowerCRUD

• Production-ready CRUD – faster
  HTMX responses, modal forms, inline row editing, and filter sidebars are configured through class attributes rather than custom templates.

• Bulk operations that scale
  Start synchronously with selection persistence and validation controls, then opt into async queueing with conflict locks, progress polling, and an optional dashboard when jobs run longer.

• One async toolkit everywhere
  The async manager, conflict handling, and progress API are reusable from admin actions, management commands, or bespoke launch sites so background work behaves consistently.

• Batteries included
  Sample app, Docker dev stack, management commands, Tailwind safelist tooling, and a maintained pytest/Playwright suite keep the project teachable and testable.

ℹ️ Status

PowerCRUD is still evolving, but now ships with a comprehensive pytest suite (including Playwright UI smoke tests). Expect rough edges while APIs settle, and pin the package if you rely on current behaviour.

See the full documentation.

Key Features

• HTMX-enabled CRUD views with modal create/edit/delete flows.
• Inline row editing with dependency-aware widgets, lock checks, and permission guards.
• Bulk edit/delete with selection persistence and an optional async path.
• Async infrastructure: conflict locks, progress cache, django-q2 workers, cleanup command, optional dashboard persistence.
• Filtering, sorting, and pagination helpers backed by tuned templates.
• Styling controls (daisyUI/Tailwind) plus template scaffolding and Tailwind safelist extraction.
• Extension hooks for custom actions, buttons, and templates, illustrated in the bundled sample app.
• Tooling support: Dockerised dev environment, management commands, pytest + Playwright coverage.

Quick Examples

Core CRUD (synchronous)

from neapolitan.views import CRUDView
from powercrud.mixins import PowerCRUDMixin


class ProjectCRUDView(PowerCRUDMixin, CRUDView):
    model = Project
    base_template_path = "core/base.html"

    # Core configuration
    fields = ["name", "owner", "status", "created_date"]
    properties = ["is_overdue"]
    filterset_fields = ["owner", "status", "created_date"]
    paginate_by = 25

    # UX helpers
    use_htmx = True
    use_modal = True
    inline_edit_enabled = True
    inline_edit_fields = ["status", "owner"]

    # Bulk operations (synchronous)
    bulk_fields = ["status", "owner"]
    bulk_delete = True

This single view serves a filtered list, modal forms, inline edits, and synchronous bulk edits - no async stack required.

Async bulk (opt-in)

from neapolitan.views import CRUDView
from powercrud.mixins import PowerCRUDAsyncMixin


class ProjectAsyncCRUDView(PowerCRUDAsyncMixin, CRUDView):
    model = Project
    base_template_path = "core/base.html"

    bulk_fields = ["status", "owner"]
    bulk_delete = True
    bulk_async = True
    bulk_min_async_records = 20
    bulk_async_conflict_checking = True

    # Optional async dashboard manager
    async_manager_class_path = "myapp.async_manager.AppAsyncManager"

Here async queueing is explicit: you opt in by using PowerCRUDAsyncMixin, enabling bulk_async, and configuring django-q2 (django_q in INSTALLED_APPS, Q_CLUSTER, and any POWERCRUD_SETTINGS overrides you need).

Getting Started

• Install django-powercrud and neapolitan, add powercrud, neapolitan, and django_htmx, then follow the Getting Started guide for base template requirements.
• Continue with Setup & Core CRUD basics to enable filters, pagination, and modals.
• Add Inline editing and Bulk editing (synchronous), then move to Async Manager and Bulk editing (async) when you need background work.
• Use Styling & Tailwind and Customisation tips to adapt templates.

Tooling & References

• Sample app – complete walkthrough of every feature.
• Docker dev environment – Django, Postgres, Redis, Vite, django-q2.
• Management commands – template scaffolding, Tailwind safelist extraction, async cleanup.
• Testing – pytest matrix plus Playwright smoke tests.

Supported Versions

PowerCRUD is tested against the following combinations:

• Python 3.12 with Django 4.2 LTS and Django 5.2
• Python 3.13 with Django 4.2 LTS and Django 5.2
• Python 3.14 with Django 4.2 LTS and Django 5.2

We aim to keep the dependency lock compatible with each pairing; upcoming CI work will exercise this matrix automatically on pushes to main.

Development Setup

PowerCRUD’s development environment is Docker-first. From the project root:

./runproj up          # build images, start services, enter the Django container
./runtests                # run the full test suite, including Playwright smoke tests

Dependencies are managed with uv; the Docker image installs them into the system interpreter so you never need to activate a virtual environment inside the container. See the Dockerised Development Environment guide for full details.