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Finally! A Django IDE with Real Code Completion and Template Support
Posted on March 12th, 2009 16 commentsNow it seems like forever ago, but I have been on the hunt for a good Django IDE for a very long time. I have tried PyDev, Aptana, Komodo, TextMate, Vim, Emacs, Wing IDE and every variation in between, but was never satisfied with the featurset. I wanted complete python language support and completion, complete support for Django Templates, total HTML support, as well as complete Javascript (specifically jQuery) support. Most editors made the mistake of having support for some of those individually, but I can’t get javascript support inside of a Django Template etc.
The magical and awesome app that represents the first real attempt at a complete Django development environment? Netbeans!
I know it sounds crazy, but progress is being made, and while its a boatload of effort to get it built, and even then, not much of the promised featureset actually works. But those are just details, examination of the code available at:
http://code.google.com/p/netbeans-django/
shows some real work being done towards a Django project type. Moreover, a recent blog post from someone at Sun alludes to this support being available as soon as Netbeans 7.0.
Perhaps this is just another let down waiting to happen, but the existing Python code support is fantastic, and significant strides appear to already have been made towards the goal of total Django integration. If you want to try out the existing language support, just grab the Netbeans 7M2 build and install the Python plugin!
Uncategorized code completion, django, Hacking, ide, intellisense, jquery, Linux, python, template, web16 responses to “Finally! A Django IDE with Real Code Completion and Template Support”
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Argl where’s the rest of the post?
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btmorex March 4th, 2009 at 08:47
Your blog’s been hacked. From source:
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Visik7 March 4th, 2009 at 08:57
where? what ? whew is it ? please give us a link
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richard March 4th, 2009 at 08:59
were you going to give us a name of what this IDE was called?
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“.. the mistake” – of what? You post appears to be truncated
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seems a strange post and it also has ads for online casino in the RSS. You’d better check your WP installation.
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richard March 15th, 2009 at 05:40
HOW DO YOU INSTALL THE PLUGIN?!?
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It’s pretty easy, just open the python.django project in netbeans and build. But its far from 100% complete.
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richard March 23rd, 2009 at 16:58
doesn’t work… at least with stock 7M2 with build plugins installed:
http://code.google.com/p/netbeans-django/issues/detail?id=1 -
ssarangi March 26th, 2009 at 03:48
Check Out PyScripter…
it does give code completion for django right now…
also couldn’t find the django extension from code.google
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PyScripter looks pretty cool, but the whole Windows dependancy is an issue for me. Most of my dev is on a Macbook under Ubuntu or OS X.
Search ‘django netbeans’ at Google Codes Project Search.
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Flavio April 2nd, 2009 at 05:56
Try Eric4 IDE the latest versions add full support to Django.
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Eclipse with pydev and whatever other plugins i fancy works a dream for me, it can also double as an SVN client if you so desire.
Not overly sure why you’d use netbeans ;p
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Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a glass of beer to that man from that forum who told me to visit your site
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sfreud May 13th, 2009 at 14:06
Where can I find the Django plugin?
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It seems that NetBeans for Python EA2 is now available. It seems it’s about the same as Python 6.7 with the Python extension.
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