Django development IDE

Question

I have done a little Django development, but it has all been in a text editor. I was curious what more advanced development tools others are using in their Django development.

I am used to using Visual Studio for development and really like the IntelliSense, code completion, and file organization it provides and would like to find something (or a combination of tools) that would provide some of this in the Django/Python environment.

Solution 1

I use Eclipse and a plain vanilla PyDev. There isn't any specific Django functionality. The best I came up with was setting up a run profile to run the development web server.

If you add the web tools project (WTP), you'll get syntax highlighting in your templates, but nothing that relates to the specific template language. PyDev is a decent plugin, and if you are already familiar with Eclipse and use it for other projects it is a good way to go.

I recall NetBeans starting to get Python support, but I have no idea where that is right now. Lots of people rave about NetBeans 6, but in the Java world Eclipse still reigns as the king of the OSS IDEs.

Update: LiClipse is also fantastic for Django.

Install it, use this method to get the icon into Ubuntu's menu. Start LiClipse and in File > New > Project ..., select PyDev and PyDev Django project. You may have to set up your Python interpreter etc, but that you'll be able to figure out on your own. Once the Django project is created, you can right click on the project and the menu will have a "Django" option, which allows various things like creating a Django app or running migrations etc. LiClipse is good because it consumes far lesser memory than PyCharm and supports refactoring and autocomplete reasonably well.

Solution 2

There is PyCharm from JetBrains which supports Django and Google Apps. It looks promising.

Note: You need to buy a license for the Professional version if you want Django support. The Community version desn't support Django.

Solution 3

I use Vim:

http://github.com/skyl/vim-config-python-ide

[UPDATE]

Sublime Text 2 is pretty awesome. It supports a lot of Vim commands if you want them: Vintage Mode

It has a nice package manager: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

I use these packages so far:

Djaneiro

SetDjangoSyntax

CoffeeScript

SublimeLinter

Theme - Soda

SideBarEnhancements

I still love Vim but ... did I mention that Sublime Text plugins are written in Python?

Solution 4

I use Komodo Edit. Check out the Open Komodo Edit.

Solution 5

Sublime

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Comments

[Skylar Saveland]

maybe this should be a community wiki?

[juanefren]

PyDev 1.5.6 claims to have django integration

[Zsolt Török]

@juanefren Yes, the latest PyDev release has Django support, and it's actually quite usable: pydev.org/manual_adv_django.html

[juanefren]

@zsolt-torok I tried about 2 months ago and like it very much. But I still prefer gedit simplicity (with some plugins).

[Vegar Westerlund]

There is a wiki for this: wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

[eusid]

PyCharm +! great functionality. makes coding much faster, less references docs to find functions and methods from modules. template support. error highlighting. just be sure in settings you check django. with a plugin downloader it even has a DB navigator.

[Amandeep Dhiman]

Is Visual studio 2015 better than pycharm ?

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Also checkout code.google.com/p/django-komodo-kit

[Skylar Saveland]

vim's omnicompletion is pretty good.

[Wernight]

IntelliJ Python plugin seem to be only available in the Ultimate edition.

[Kugel]

intellisense is M$ word for code completion

[heyman]

As for me being an emacs guy, I can say that I really like Wing IDE's mimicking of emacs' key bindings. Keyboard macros work, and you can even use many common M-x commands.

[imns]

Another vote for this. It works on Linux and Windows, plus it's free.

[Radek]

PyCharm has now been released in a stable version. The integrated Django and Python shells work well and autocomplete works like a charm (PyCharm after all ;). Unfortunately, do not expect autocomplete from your templates yet.

[jaketrent]

I'm using Pycharm 1.0.1 and loving it, complete with Django template intellisense.

[bdd]

I've been loving pycharm so far. 1.0 is a great start, but certainly not a full featured suite yet.

[airstrike]

+1, and now pydev.org now touts django support as one of its features

[Bryce]

++ on PyCharm. The only disappointment is lack of auto-complete in templates.

[Skylar Saveland]

pardon the overly-optimistic readme ... it was basically just my .vimrc and config.

[Filip Dupanović]

Yup, throw in a plugin here and there and it's a perfect environment for Django development.

[przemo_li]

vim can also have plugins in Python :P

[Skylar Saveland]

good call, @przemo_li :D

[Lukasz Koziara]

New PyCharm is now available with lot of useful changes/new features: blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2013/02/…

[Philip007]

A few handy plugins: Djanerio for autocompletion, Django DocSearch for doc search (option-shift-D)

[Wingware]

Note that Wing 5 (currently in beta) no longer requires X11 on OS X and should look less dorky (or hopefully entirely non-dorky ;-).

[user]

ST2 is awesome but no match for Pycharm. However for various reasons people prefer ST2 (light, extensible) so here's a list of useful plugins for ST2+django/python to get it going : stackoverflow.com/q/18914386/781695

[Salvatorelab]

PyCharm is really complete. Recommended. The bad news is that you need a license to use it...

[airstrike]

"Now" as in April 29th, 2011 as per the timestamp.

[Syler]

the community edition does not support django, you have to get the professional edition :(

[Neil]

Sublime + predawn theme is really nice jamiewilson.io/predawn

[Bezewy]

Concerning the previous comment, I'm currently using the community edition to test/debug my Django model and it works great.

[Ariel]

For those looking for a free/open source solution, GitHub's Atom or Adobe's Brackets may be interesting alternatives to Sublime.

[dcgoss]

JetBrains now has an education program, where students doing noncommercial development can use all of their professional tools for free for a year (pretty sure this can be renewed, however). A great way to get a taste before you buy the full license. jetbrains.com/student

[Homunculus Reticulli]

Komodo is no longer free

[Peter Mortensen]

The link is broken. Google Code closed down.

[amdev]

Can you refactor with sublimetext ? It's not an IDE ..

[Mackie Messer]

I'm a big fan of Eclipse + PyDev. Works great with Django. in fact, Django projects are offered as a project type when creating something from scratch.

[Nav]

Even I used Netbeans until I found LiClipse: nrecursions.blogspot.com/2019/03/…