Status

What's the current status of Plain, and is it ready to use?

Plain is currently pre-1.0. That just means that if you're starting a long-term project, be ready for a maintenance/update burden as APIs and features are still moving around and getting finalized.

Here is an overview of major changes that have been made since forking Django →

Checklist for 1.0.0

Although it's technically being used in production already, there are a few things that must happen before Plain is 1.0.

Questions about .env support and where it should live.
Decide whether plain.elements should be integrated into core.
Decide what to do with remaining MIDDLEWARE.
PYTHONPATH and relative imports inside app.
Remove any lingering references to "django"

Note that a lot of general code has be ripped out and changed in pretty quick fashion. Clean up across the board is in order -- there is lingering code that is no longer used, or has been changed substantially enough that a simpler re-implementation would be nice.

Packages

A rough idea of where progress is at for each package.

🟢 = good enough 🟡 = almost there 🔴 = needs work

Package	Features	Testing	Documentation
plain	🟢	🔴	🔴
plain-auth	🟢	🔴	🟡
plain-cache	🟢	🔴	🔴
plain-code	🟢	🔴	🔴
plain-models	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-dev	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-elements	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-flags	🟢	🔴	🔴
plain-htmx	🟢	🔴	🟡
plain-importmap	🔴	🟢	🟡
plain-mail	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-oauth	🟢	🟡	🟡
plain-pages	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-passwords	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-pytest	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-sessions	🟢	🔴	🔴
plain-staff	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-tailwind	🟢	🔴	🟡
plain-vendor	🟡	🔴	🔴
plain-worker	🟢	🔴	🔴

Potential packages

plain-api (started)
plain-charts (started)
plain-pwa (started)
plain-2fa / plain-totp
plain-passkeys
plain-loginlink