# dcramer/django-devserver

A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.

Repository: https://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-devserver
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-02-26T17:37:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6049, "days_push": 2380, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1265, forks 154 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:11.040942+00:00)

## What it is
django-devserver is a drop-in replacement for Django's built-in runserver management command, adding an extendable module system for real-time logging, SQL formatting, memory profiling, and line profiling. It also supports the Werkzeug interactive debugger, threaded or forked multi-process serving, and targeting arbitrary WSGI applications.

## Use cases
- replace Django's runserver with a more capable development server
- see real-time SQL query and logging output while developing a Django app
- profile memory usage and line-by-line performance in development
- use the Werkzeug interactive debugger with Django
- run a threaded or multi-process dev server for a Django project
- serve a custom WSGI application during development

## When to avoid
- you are on a modern Django version, since the project targets Django 1.3+ and has not been updated since 2020
- you need a production or staging server rather than a development tool
- you want actively maintained alternatives like django-extensions' runserver_plus

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, http-server, logging, monitoring
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, backend
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: django, runserver, development-server, werkzeug, debugging

## Member repositories
- dcramer/django-devserver (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.040942+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:03:51.114508+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.040942+00:00, sha 87148813054b)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-devserver/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:16:01.924351+00:00, sha 1fe6ef05e242)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.