# Django Cotton

UI component framework for Django that builds reusable components from single template files.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/django-cotton/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://django-cotton.com
- repository: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton
- docs: https://django-cotton.com/docs/quickstart
- plugins: https://django-cotton.com/docs/ecosystem
- discord: https://discord.gg/4x8ntQwHMe

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Will Abbott
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2024
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.8
- basedOn: django

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: django-templates
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1176
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 21
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://django-cotton.com/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://django-cotton.com/docs/quickstart (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-cotton/json (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/blob/2.8.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/blob/2.8.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://django-cotton.com/ (read 2026-10-26)
- basedOn: https://django-cotton.com/ (read 2026-10-26)
- templating: https://django-cotton.com/ (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://django-cotton.com/docs/quickstart (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/blob/2.8.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-26)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/blob/2.8.0/pyproject.toml (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/releases/tag/2.8.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton/releases/tag/2.8.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://github.com/wrabit/django-cotton (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://django-cotton.com/docs/ecosystem (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Django Cotton is a UI component framework for Django that builds reusable components from single template files. The project describes itself as enhancing Django templates without replacing them, and it installs as a Python package with pip. Will Abbott, an individual, maintains it.

## Worth knowing

The project's ecosystem page lists third-party projects built on Cotton and says most of them are independently maintained.

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