django-powercrud 0.4.3

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.

What is PowerCRUD?

The neapolitan package gives you a solid foundation for Django CRUD views. But you still need to add filtering, bulk operations, modern UX features, and styling yourself.

PowerCRUD comes with these features built-in, specifically for user-facing CRUD interfaces. Use what you need, customize what you want.

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

🎯 Advanced CRUD Operations - Filtering, pagination, bulk edit/delete (with async) out of the box
⚡ Modern Web UX - HTMX integration, modals, and reactive updates
🔧 Developer Friendly - Convention over configuration with full customization options
🎨 Multiple CSS Frameworks - daisyUI/Tailwind (default) and Bootstrap 5 support

Quick Example

Start with basic neapolitan:

# Basic neapolitan
class ProjectView(CRUDView):
    model = Project

Add powercrud for advanced features:

# With powercrud
class ProjectView(PowerCRUDMixin, CRUDView):
    model = Project
    fields = ["name", "owner", "status"]
    base_template_path = "core/base.html"
    
    # Modern features
    use_htmx = True
    use_modal = True
    
    # Advanced filtering
    filterset_fields = ["owner", "status", "created_date"]
    
    # Bulk operations
    bulk_fields = ["status", "owner"]
    bulk_delete = True
    
    # Enhanced display
    properties = ["is_overdue", "days_remaining"]

Getting Started

See the Quick Start documentation

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
pytest                # 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.