Django4 / Django3 / Django2.2+ / Django1.11 complete installer

About

This template installs a fully functional Django website in just a few minutes.

Django 1.11 (for python2.7) Django 2+ (python3) includes bootstrap3, Allauth, and some other useful apps. These are easy to remove if you dont need it.

The goal of this template is to set up a fully functional django project in minutes, and have a clear project structure.

src                   # project root  
├── manage.py
├── /static
├── /config           # project configuration 
│   ├── /settings   
│   │   ├── base.py   # project settings   
│   │   ├── local.py  # local settings (development)
│   ├── urls.py        
│   ├── wsgi.py
├── /layout           # base templates and static files  
│   ├── models.py
│   ├── /staticu
    ... 

Quick Install

first create a virtenv, activate. Then,

source <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alex-CodeLab/django-base-template/master/install.sh)

(if nothing happens when running above command, you should probably update ssl certs: sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh && export SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs )

Step by step Installation

• (when using python3) Make sure you have libevent-dev, python3-dev installed :

$ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev python3-dev

• Install if not installed already :

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev libffi-dev

• Create your working environment and virtualenv:

$ virtualenv project
$ virtualenv -p python3 project  # for python3/django2

$ cd project
$ source bin/activate

• run install.sh :

$ source <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alex-CodeLab/django-base-template/master/install.sh)

...and that's all!

Features

By default, this project template includes:

A set of basic templates and Twitter Bootstrap 3.3.5 (located in the base app, with css and javascript included).

Templating:

• django_compressor for compressing javascript/css/less/sass

Authentication, registration

• allauth (+ base-template)

Security:

• bleach
• bcrypt - uses bcrypt for password hashing by default

Background Tasks:

• Celery

Caching:

• python-memcached

Admin:

• Includes django-debug-toolbar for development and production (enabled for superusers)

Testing:

• nose and django-nose
• pylint, pep8, and coverage

Any of these options can added, modified, or removed as you like after creating your project.

Python 3 compatability

• use python3-memcached instead of python-memcached

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7 or 3.*
• pip
• virtualenv (virtualenvwrapper is recommended for use during development)

License

This software is licensed under the New BSD License.