A very informat presentation given by Trey Hunner at Django Day on 2013-02-23.
Presentation format: open up links below and explain why each package is cool.
- South for database migrations
- Django model utils for some frequently useful model utilities/mixins
- django braces for some generic class-based-view mixins
- django extra views for more class-based-views
- tastypie and django rest framework are both good frameworks for creating RESTful APIs
- django widget tweaks for rendering form fields in a more customized way
- django compressor for compressing CSS and JavaScript and precompiling SASS, less, CoffeeScript, etc.
- django debug toolbar for debugging in your browser
- django extensions is a kitchen sink of miscellaneous Django-related tools
- sentry for logging/managing errors