Starting Django Projects

Florian Demmer - www.floriandemmer.com

django-admin startproject

Django Friends Meetup, 2016-01-25

What is it?

Creates a Django project directory structure for the given project name in the current directory or the given destination.

How?

mkvirtualenv foo

pip install django

django-admin startproject foo

in Django v1.9

python -m django startproject foo

... and then

make settings a package

split into base+dev+prod

move apps to subfolder

create gitignore, version.py, README

...

repetitive work!

DRY

python -m django 

startproject 

--template=https://github.com/fdemmer/django_project_template/archive/master.zip 

foo

Features

• works with zip file or directory as template                 
  • also remote: http(s) or ftp
• use variables in file names and file content
  • project_name
  • project_directory
  • secret_key
  • docs_version
     

Want more?

• cookie cutter:
  https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

• Django template:
  https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django

Related: requirements.txt

# pip install pip-tools
# vi requirements.in
wagtail==1.3.1
<esc>:wq
# pip-compile requirements.in
# cat requirements.txt
wagtail==1.3.1
django-modelcluster==1.1  # via wagtail
django-taggit==0.18.0     # via wagtail
...

All the things

• Django docs:
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/django-admin/

• my template: https://github.com/fdemmer/django_project_template
   

• cookie cutter: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django

• me: http://www.floriandemmer.com

• my twitter: @fdemmer

• slides: https://slides.com/fdemmer