SaaS Pegasus provides a comprehensive starter kit for building SaaS applications with Django. It handles all the boring parts of application development so you can focus on your unique features.
Core components include:
User Authentication System with social login, email verification, and password reset
Team/Multi-tenancy with invitations and role-based access control
Payments with Stripe integration for subscriptions and one-off purchases
AI Integration with OpenAI examples for ChatGPT and DALL-E
Choice of Frontend with React or HTMX options
Multiple CSS frameworks including Tailwind, Bootstrap, or Bulma
Developer Experience with Docker, tests, and CI/CD
The codebase is regularly updated with new features and improvements, backed by comprehensive documentation and a supportive community.
Django boilerplate with Hotwire integration for rapid SaaS development
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Stimulus
Tailwind CSS
PostgreSQL
Stripe
Django
Hotwire
Wagtail
Features:
2FA
Auth
Charts
CI/CD
CMS
Landing Page
Prettier
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Frequently Asked Questions
Python
What makes Python ideal for SaaS development?
Python excels in SaaS development due to its robust ecosystem, strong typing capabilities, and excellent library support. Python boilerplates leverage language-specific features to provide type-safe database queries, efficient API routing, and optimized runtime performance. The language's maturity means you get battle-tested packages for authentication, payment processing, and background jobs that integrate seamlessly.
Django
What Django-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Django boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Django's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Django's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
Wagtail CMS
What Wagtail CMS-specific architecture patterns are implemented?
Wagtail CMS boilerplates leverage the framework's native architecture patterns including its routing system, middleware pipeline, and controller/handler structure. They implement Wagtail CMS's conventions for separating concerns, dependency injection, and service layer patterns. The codebase follows Wagtail CMS's best practices for organizing models, views/components, and business logic to ensure maintainability as your application grows.
Bootstrap
What Bootstrap-specific component architecture is used?
Bootstrap boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Bootstrap's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with Bootstrap's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Bulma
What Bulma-specific component architecture is used?
Bulma boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Bulma's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with Bulma's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
HTMX
What HTMX-specific component architecture is used?
HTMX boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement HTMX's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with HTMX's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
React
What React-specific component architecture is used?
React boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement React's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with React's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
Tailwind CSS
What Tailwind CSS-specific component architecture is used?
Tailwind CSS boilerplates follow the framework's component composition patterns with reusable, atomic design components. They implement Tailwind CSS's best practices for component structure, props handling, event management, and lifecycle methods. The component library includes authentication flows, dashboards, data tables, forms with validation, and navigation—all built with Tailwind CSS's native features like hooks (React), composition API (Vue), or directives (Angular).
PostgreSQL
What PostgreSQL-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
PostgreSQL boilerplates utilize the database's native capabilities including its transaction model (ACID for SQL, eventual consistency for NoSQL), indexing strategies (B-tree, GiST, full-text search), and advanced features like JSON columns, array types, window functions, or document queries. The schema design takes advantage of PostgreSQL's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
SQLite
What SQLite-specific features are leveraged in these boilerplates?
SQLite boilerplates utilize the database's native capabilities including its transaction model (ACID for SQL, eventual consistency for NoSQL), indexing strategies (B-tree, GiST, full-text search), and advanced features like JSON columns, array types, window functions, or document queries. The schema design takes advantage of SQLite's strengths—whether that's PostgreSQL's JSONB, MySQL's full-text search, MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, or Redis's data structures.
Stripe
What Stripe API features are implemented?
Stripe boilerplates implement the provider's complete API suite including checkout sessions, subscription lifecycle management, customer portal, webhook event handling, and invoice generation. They use Stripe's latest API version with proper error handling, idempotency keys, and retry logic. The integration includes Stripe-specific features like payment intents, setup intents, subscription schedules, and tax calculation APIs.
Python
What Python-specific tools and libraries are included?
Python boilerplates include the language's most popular and production-proven tools. This typically includes testing frameworks, linters, formatters, build tools, and package managers specific to Python. You'll get pre-configured toolchains that enforce best practices, automated testing pipelines, and development environments optimized for Python development workflows.
Django
How does Django's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Django boilerplates use the framework's native ORM or query builder (Prisma, Eloquent, Active Record, SQLAlchemy, etc.) with pre-configured models for users, subscriptions, teams, and common SaaS entities. They include optimized queries, relationships, migrations, seeders, and database connection pooling. The implementation leverages Django's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
Wagtail CMS
How does Wagtail CMS's ORM/database layer work in these boilerplates?
Wagtail CMS boilerplates use the framework's native ORM or query builder (Prisma, Eloquent, Active Record, SQLAlchemy, etc.) with pre-configured models for users, subscriptions, teams, and common SaaS entities. They include optimized queries, relationships, migrations, seeders, and database connection pooling. The implementation leverages Wagtail CMS's specific features like eager loading, query scopes, and transaction handling for performance.
Bootstrap
How is state management handled in Bootstrap boilerplates?
Bootstrap boilerplates use the framework's recommended state management approach—whether that's React Context + hooks, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Pinia (Vue), NgRx (Angular), or Svelte stores. They include pre-configured state slices for authentication, user data, subscriptions, and UI state with proper TypeScript typing. The implementation follows Bootstrap's patterns for global state, local component state, and server state synchronization.
