djangospice-framework

Application Runtime Framework for building Django apps

djangospice-framework is the application runtime for building modular Django applications.

It is designed to provide a consistent foundation for building large Django application ecosystems without repeatedly implementing the same infrastructure in every application.

Why djangospice-framework?

Large Django projects often accumulate infrastructure that gets duplicated across applications.

For example, individual applications may independently implement:

• Base models
• Event dispatching
• Job handling
• File handling
• Import/export pipelines
• Realtime broadcasting
• Common service abstractions

djangospice_framework provides these capabilities as a shared runtime.

This gives applications a common architecture and allows modules to remain focused on their actual domain.

Design goals

djangospice_framework is designed around several principles:

• Reusable — common functionality should be implemented once.
• Modular — functionality should be composed through independent components.
• Extensible — applications should be able to replace or extend framework behavior.
• Django-native — use Django's existing ecosystem rather than reinventing it.
• Developer-friendly — common application infrastructure should require minimal boilerplate.

Installation

Install djangospice_framework from PyPI:

pip install djangospice-framework

Basic Usage

Once installed, djangospice_framework components can be imported by Django applications and modules.

For example, using the common model infrastructure:

from djangospice_framework.db.models import BaseModel


class Customer(BaseModel):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

The exact capabilities available depend on the components being used by the application.

Core Components

djangospice-framework is organized around reusable infrastructure rather than business-domain applications.

Database and Models

Common Django model abstractions provide a consistent foundation for application models.

from djangospice_framework.db.models import BaseModel

The database layer is intended to eliminate repetitive model infrastructure while preserving normal Django ORM behavior.

Events

The event system provides a decoupled mechanism for applications to communicate.

Instead of tightly coupling one application component to another, a component can dispatch an event and allow listeners to react to it.

Conceptually:

Application Action
       │
       ▼
     Event
       │
       ├── Listener
       ├── Listener
       └── Listener

This allows functionality such as notifications, auditing, integrations, and background processing to be attached without modifying the original application logic.

Broadcasting and Realtime Communication

The runtime provides abstractions for broadcasting application events and data to users or groups.

For example:

Broadcast.everyone(...)

or:

Broadcast.user(user, ...)

This infrastructure can be used by applications that need realtime updates through WebSockets or other supported transports.

Async Support

The runtime provides common abstractions for asynchronous application functionality.

This allows modules to use async operations where appropriate while keeping common infrastructure in one place.

Files

djangospice-framework provides common abstractions for file-related functionality, allowing applications to work with files without repeatedly implementing storage and file-handling patterns.

Imports and Exports

Reusable import/export infrastructure allows applications to implement data exchange consistently.

Typical use cases include:

• CSV imports
• Spreadsheet imports
• Data exports
• Bulk operations
• Integration pipelines

Application Modules

djangospice-framework is not intended to be a standalone business application.

Instead, it provides the runtime used by applications and modules.

For example:

djangospice-framework
    │
    ├── billing
    ├── notification
    ├── workflow
    ├── documents
    ├── helpdesk
    ├── CRM
    ├── workforce

Each application can depend on the common runtime while retaining responsibility for its own domain.

This keeps domain logic out of the framework.

Example

A module can build its domain logic on top of djangospice-framework:

from djangospice_framework.db.models import BaseModel


class Invoice(BaseModel):
    number = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
    amount = models.DecimalField(
        max_digits=12,
        decimal_places=2,
    )

The module can then use other djangospice-framework infrastructure for events, notifications, UI, HTTP responses, tables, files, and other common functionality.

The result is a module that contains primarily business/domain logic, rather than infrastructure boilerplate.

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE for the full license text.