django-base-project

A template for creating Django projects quickly, inspired by @pydanny @cookiecutter-django .

Features

• For Django 1.9
• Python 3.4
• UI Kit
• AngularJS (In the future)
• File to be used with TravisCI
• Optimized to be used with Digital Ocean
• Basic Static and Media Files configuration to be used with AWS
• SASS for CSS
• Gulp for Javascript Automation
• Fabric for deployment automation
• Basic Caching Setup

Constraints

• PostgresSQL everywhere
• Enviroment variables for configuration (This won't work with Apache/mod_wsgi)
• Only maintained 3rd party libraries are used

Django and Python Related

• You should use PiP and virtualenv
• Coverage
• Pylint
• pytest
• to be used with Nginx (as a reversed proxy) and gunicorn

Other Stuff

• The templates include a base.html, index.html and both a login.html and signup html.
• Different settings and requirements list are included to work with the different locations where the server will live (base, local, staging and production)

Installation

To create a new project with called 'recipes' using the template , run the following command:

$ django-admin startproject --template https://github.com/codetigerco/django-base-project/archive/master.zip recipes

To install psycopg2 on the virtualenv on a Mac first you need to setup your PATH:

$ PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/(latest-version)/bin

To setup the database do the following:

Open the postgress app
$ CREATE DATABASE name-of-database;
$ \c name-of-database
$ CREATE USER name-of-user;