Django SmartBase Admin
A modern, modular, and developer-friendly admin interface for Django.
Built to speed up development of internal tools and admin panels — beautifully and efficiently.
✨ Features
- Fast integration with any Django project
- Improved performance of Django List Admin using
SBAdminField, databaseannotate()andvalues()to avoid direct object access - Simple configuration of menu structure, dashboard components, and permissions per user role
- Enhanced Django List Admin filters: autocomplete support for related fields and filtering across all model fields
- Ability for users to save and reuse custom filters in Django List Admin
- Improved Django Detail Admin with autocomplete for relational fields
- Support for "FakeInlines" – define inline-like blocks without requiring a direct model relationship
- Easy extension of list and detail views with custom actions and corresponding views
- Beautiful modern UI (Tailwind CSS)
- Responsive & mobile-friendly
- End-user ready for building SaaS or similar projects with global queryset configuration
- Built-in audit logging — automatically tracks all admin create, update, and delete operations with full change history, snapshots, and request grouping
📚 Full Documentation (in progress)
🌐 Live Demo
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Login credentials:
- Admin role:
admin / admin - Editor role:
editor / editor
⚡ Quick Start
1. Install Smartbase Admin
Begin by installing the Smartbase Admin package using pip:
pip install django-smartbase-admin
Ensure that django-smartbase-admin and its dependencies are included in your Django settings. Open your settings.py file and add the following to INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# other apps
"django_smartbase_admin",
"easy_thumbnails",
"widget_tweaks",
"ckeditor",
"ckeditor_uploader",
]
2. Add Admin URL Configuration
In your project’s urls.py, register the Smartbase Admin site by importing sb_admin_site and adding the path:
from django_smartbase_admin.admin.site import sb_admin_site
urlpatterns = [
path("sb-admin/", sb_admin_site.urls),
# other paths
]
This makes the Smartbase Admin interface accessible at /sb-admin/
3. Define the SmartBase Admin Configuration
In your project, for example in config package create a file called sbadmin_config.py with the following content:
from django_smartbase_admin.engine.configuration import SBAdminConfigurationBase, SBAdminRoleConfiguration
from django_smartbase_admin.views.dashboard_view import SBAdminDashboardView
from django_smartbase_admin.engine.menu_item import SBAdminMenuItem
config = SBAdminRoleConfiguration(
default_view=SBAdminMenuItem(view_id="dashboard"),
menu_items=[
SBAdminMenuItem(view_id="dashboard", icon="All-application"),
],
registered_views=[
SBAdminDashboardView(widgets=[], title="Dashboard"),
],
)
class SBAdminConfiguration(SBAdminConfigurationBase):
def get_configuration_for_roles(self, user_roles):
return config
4. Reference the Configuration in settings.py
SB_ADMIN_CONFIGURATION = "config.sbadmin_config.SBAdminConfiguration"
5. Add Locale Middleware
Add the following middleware to support internationalization:
MIDDLEWARE = [
# Other middleware...
'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
]
Enable Django i18n URLs so {% url 'set_language' %} is available for the navigation language picker:
from django.urls import include, path
urlpatterns = [
path("i18n/", include("django.conf.urls.i18n")),
]
🔍 Audit Logging
Built-in optional audit app that automatically tracks all admin create, update, delete, and bulk operations with field-level diffs, snapshots, and request grouping. Just add "django_smartbase_admin.audit" to INSTALLED_APPS and run migrations.
See AGENTS.md — Audit Logging for setup and configuration.
🤖 AI/Developer Reference
See AGENTS.md for development patterns, gotchas, and AI assistant instructions.
🤝 Need Help with Development?
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Whether you're building a new platform or modernizing an internal tool — 💡 We can help you design, build, and scale it.
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