Simon Willison’s Weblog
DJP is a new plugin mechanism for Django, built on top of Pluggy. I announced the first version of DJP during my talk yesterday at DjangoCon US 2024, How to design and implement extensible software with plugins. I’ll post a full write-up of that talk once the video becomes available—this post describes DJP and how to use what I’ve built so far.
If you’ve ever installed a Django extension—such as django-debug-toolbar or django-extensions—you’ll be familiar with the process. You pip install the package, then add it to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py—and often configure other picees, like adding something to MIDDLEWARE or updating your urls.py with new URL patterns.
This isn’t exactly a huge burden, but it’s added friction. It’s also the exact kind of thing plugin systems are designed to solve.
DJP addresses this. You configure DJP just once, and then any additional DJP-enabled plugins you pip install can automatically register configure themselves within your Django project.
