A cookiecutter template for creating reusable Django packages (installable apps) quickly.
Why? Creating reusable Django packages has always been annoying. There are no defined/maintained
best practices (especially for setup.py
), so you end up cutting and pasting hacky, poorly understood,
often legacy code from one project to the other. This template, inspired by cookiecutter-pypackage,
is designed to allow Django developers the ability to break free from cargo-cult configuration and follow
a common pattern dictated by the experts and maintained here.
- Sane setup.py for easy PyPI registration/distribution
- Travis-CI configuration
- Codecov configuration
- Tox configuration
- Sphinx Documentation
- BSD licensed by default
- Basic model generation
First, create your empty repo on Github (in our example below, we would call it blogging_for_humans
) and set up your virtual environment with your favorite method.
Note: Your project will be created with README.rst file containing a pypi badge, a travis-ci badge and a link to documentation on readthedocs.org. You don't need to have these accounts set up before using Cookiecutter or cookiecutter-djangopackage.
Now, get Cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome:
$ pip install cookiecutter
Now run it against this repo:
$ cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-djangopackage.git
You'll be prompted for some questions, answer them, then it will create a directory that is your new package.
Let's pretend you want to create a reusable Django app called "Blogging-for-Humans", with an app that can be placed
in INSTALLED_APPS
as "blogging_for_humans". Rather than have to copy/paste from other people's projects and
then fight enthusiasm-destroying app layout issues like setup.py configuration and creating test
harnesses, you get Cookiecutter to do all the work.
Warning: After this point, change 'Daniel Greenfeld', 'pydanny', etc to your own information.
It prompts you for information that it uses to create the app, with defaults in square brackets. Answer them:
Cloning into 'cookiecutter-djangopackage'... remote: Counting objects: 49, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (33/33), done. remote: Total 49 (delta 6), reused 48 (delta 5) Unpacking objects: 100% (49/49), done. full_name [Your full name here]: Daniel Roy Greenfeld email [you@example.com]: pydanny@gmail.com github_username [yourname]: pydanny project_name [dj-package]: Blogging-for-Humans repo_name [blogging_for_humans]: app_name [blogging_for_humans]: project_short_description [Your project description goes here]: A sample Django package models [Comma-separated list of models]: Scoop, Flavor django_versions [1.8,1.9]: version [0.1.0]: create_example_project [N]: Select open_source_license: 1 - MIT 2 - BSD 3 - ISCL 4 - Apache Software License 2.0 5 - Not open source Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [1]:
Enter the project and take a look around:
$ cd blogging_for_humans/ $ ls
Create a GitHub repo and push it there:
$ git init $ git add . $ git commit -m "first awesome commit" $ git remote add origin git@github.com:pydanny/blogging_for_humans.git $ git push -u origin master
Now take a look at your repo. Awesome, right?
It's time to write the code!!!
Code has been written, but does it actually work? Let's find out!
source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate (myenv) $ pip install -r requirements_test.txt (myenv) $ python runtests.py
Once you've got at least a prototype working and tests running, it's time to register the app on PyPI:
python setup.py register
Time to release a new version? Easy! Just run:
$ python setup.py publish
It will answer with something like:
You probably want to also tag the version now: git tag -a 0.1.0 -m 'version 0.1.0' git push --tags
Go ahead and follow those instructions.
Once you have a release, and assuming you have an account there, just go to https://www.djangopackages.com/packages/add/ and add it there.
This project follows best practices as espoused in Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8.
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