django-template

Use this repository as a template project for most django projects. This way, most of the boilerplate details are pre-filled and standardized.

Getting Started

• Create new django project from template
  • Create the directory you want the new project to be in (name it the same as your project name) and navigate into it

    mkdir <project_name>
    

  • Setup the initial virtual environment and make sure django is installed

    python3 -m venv env
    source env/bin/activate (for Windows use: env\scripts\activate)
    pip install django
    

  • Run the following command to create the new project, using django-template as a template project in your new directory (note: the '.' at the end of the command notes to use the current directory; and use the new directory name as <project_name>)

    django-admin startproject --template=https://github.com/impactupgrade/django-template/archive/master.zip <project_name> .
    

Typical Start-Up

• Create virtual environment / install app requirements / setup db / start server

python3 -m venv env (if not already created)
source env/bin/activate (for Windows use: env\scripts\activate)
pip install -r requirements.txt
export/set DATABASE_URL=<db_connection_url>
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver 8000

You can also use run_setup.sh or run_setup.bat to achieve the above all in one shot -- make/migrate DB schema changes, and boot up the server.

Create a superuser for the django admin panel and enter password via the terminal

python manage.py createsuperuser --username admin --email admin@email.com

If making DB modifications, make db migrations to update schema

python manage.py makemigrations to create the migration file

python manage.py migrate to apply new migrations

Active Development

Once everything is setup and working you can run the below shell/batch script in the command line to destroy the database, create an empty new database, migrate to latest schema, and start the dev server

./run_setup.sh or ./run_setup.bat