Seal

Judgement

What it is

Template or starter

What it does

A Django starter project showing both server-rendered pages and a separate REST or GraphQL API with a Vue admin.

Adopt it when

You want a Django skeleton to copy for an internal admin tool.

Watch out

A demo from a single author whose sibling projects are marked unmaintained; check dependency versions before reuse.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python, Django, Celery, Vue and GraphQL

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 2026.9.28.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Seal → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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