Awesome Django Modern REST

Contents

• Official
• Extensions
• Tooling and Utilities
• AI and Agent Tooling
  • Official AI context
  • Official migration and generation skills
• Projects and Templates
• Articles

Official

• Documentation - Complete API reference and practical usage guides.
• Source code - Source repository on GitHub.
• Performance and Benchmarks - Performance analysis and benchmark results.

Extensions

• diwire - Integration guide for the diwire type-driven dependency injection framework.
• dmr-dishka - Integration package for Dishka with typing and async support.
• jam - Authentication and authorization framework with Django Modern REST integration.

Tooling and Utilities

• django-stubs - Type stubs and a mypy plugin for Django projects using django-modern-rest.
• django-mantle - Typed model conversion for Django QuerySets with official django-modern-rest integration documentation.
• django-modern-schemas - Automatically generates Pydantic v2 schemas from Django models, avoiding duplicated field definitions.
• django-health-check - Simple health check endpoints for Django.
• imgproxykit - Typed imgproxy URL builder with signed URLs, reusable image transformations, and Django integration.

AI and Agent Tooling

Official AI context

• LLMs support in docs - Official guidance for AI-assisted development and upgrade workflows.
• llms.txt - Documentation context for LLM coding.
• Context7 - Up-to-date DMR docs for AI tools.
• DeepWiki - AI-friendly knowledge view of the framework.

Official migration and generation skills

• dmr - Best-practices skill for building/maintaining DMR code.
• dmr-from-drf - AI-guided migration from Django REST Framework to django-modern-rest.
• dmr-from-django-ninja - AI-guided migration from django-ninja / ninja-extra.
• dmr-openapi-skeleton - Spec-first generation of DMR transport skeleton from OpenAPI 3.1+.

Projects and Templates

• wemake-django-templates - Production-ready project template with django-modern-rest and modern tooling.
• spectacular-dmr-demo - Demo of gradual migration from DRF to django-modern-rest with a unified OpenAPI layer.
• url-shortener-django-modern-rest-example - URL shortener API example built with Django and django-modern-rest.

Articles

• Why Django needs a new REST API - Short Russian-language overview of the framework's goals and core benefits.
• Django Modern REST 0.1.0: First Public Release - Detailed Russian-language release post covering key features and ecosystem integrations.