simple-django-cookie-cutter-template

Pre-requisties:

1. Docker
2. VSCode
3. VSCode Dev Containers extension
4. VSCode Docker extension

How to run the application

Its assumed VSCode is the IDE

Make a directory to conating you project and cd into it. Create a virtual environment and install cookiecutter using the command

pip install cookiecutter

Run the command:

cookiecutter https://github.com/erwazzzzzzz2/simple-django-cookie-cutter-template.git

Choose values for the prompts or accept the defaults

A new project folder should be created and inside; this a DevContainer Django/Postgres project. navigate into the project Select the VSCode command pallete and select Dev Containers: Rebuild Container You containerized environment should run. You might to be asked to install the Docker Extension , this is a bug see the DevContainer repo README mentioned below.

Run the command below to start the application and check the database is created.

python manage.py run_app

If you want to change the Django project name use the command:

python manage.py rename_project <current_name> <new_name>

See the repo https://github.com/erwazzzzzzz2/django-devcontainers for details of the devcontainer set up, issues and so on.