/heroku-django-template

A Django 1.8 base template featuring all recommended best practices for deployment on Heroku and local development.

Primary LanguagePython

Heroku Django Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 1.8.

Features

  • Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
  • Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise
  • Enhancements to Django's database functionality via django-postgrespool and dj-database-url

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

  1. Create your working environment.
  2. Install Django ($ pip install django)
  3. Create a new project using this template

Creating Your Project

Using this template to create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile helloworld

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

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