A Django project boilerplate/template with lots of state of the art libraries and tools like:
- React, for building interactive UIs
- django-js-reverse, for generating URLs on JS
- Bootstrap 4, for responsive styling
- Webpack, for bundling static assets
- Celery, for background worker tasks
- WhiteNoise with brotlipy, for efficient static files serving
- prospector and ESLint with pre-commit for automated quality assurance (does not replace proper testing!)
For continuous integration, a CircleCI configuration .circleci/config.yml
is included.
Also, includes a Heroku app.json
and a working Django production.py
settings, enabling easy deployments with 'Deploy to Heroku' button. Those Heroku plugins are included in app.json
:
- PostgreSQL, for DB
- Redis, for Celery
- Sendgrid, for e-mail sending
- Papertrail, for logs and platform errors alerts (must set them manually)
This is a good starting point for modern Python/JavaScript web projects.
- Install Django with
pip install django
, to have thedjango-admin
command available. - Open the command line and go to the directory you want to start your project in.
- Start your project using:
django-admin startproject theprojectname --extension py,yml,json --name Procfile,Dockerfile,README.md,.env.example --template=https://github.com/vintasoftware/django-react-boilerplate/archive/boilerplate-release.zip
In the next steps, always remember to replace theprojectname with your project's name
- Above: don't forget the
--extension
and--name
params! - Navigate to the project's directory through your command line.
- Create a new virtualenv with either virtualenvwrapper or only virtualenv:
mkvirtualenv theprojectname
orpython -m venv theprojectname
. - Make sure the virtualenv is activated
workon theprojectname
orsource theprojectname/bin/activate
- Install pip-tools if not installed yet:
pip install pip-tools
(maybe you'll have to run this command as an OS superuser). - Make sure you have Python 3.7 installed.
- Compile the requirements before installation:
pip-compile requirements.in > requirements.txt && pip-compile dev-requirements.in > dev-requirements.txt
-
pip install -r requirements.txt && pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
- Change the first line of README to the name of the project.
- Add an email address to the
ADMINS
settings variable ingitcommits/gitcommits/settings/base.py
- Change the
SERVER_EMAIL
to the email address used to send e-mails ingitcommits/gitcommits/settings/production.py
- Rename the folder
circleci
to.circleci
with the commandmv circleci .circleci
After completing ALL of the above, remove this Project bootstrap
section from the project README. Then follow Running
below.
- Inside the
backend
folder, do the following: - Create a copy of
gitcommits/settings/local.py.example
:cp gitcommits/settings/local.py.example gitcommits/settings/local.py
(remembering you should replacegitcommits
with your project's name!). - Create a copy of
.env.example
:cp .env.example .env
If you are using plain python: - Create the migrations for
users
app (do this, then remove this line from the README):python manage.py makemigrations
- Run the migrations:
python manage.py migrate
If you are using docker: - Create the migrations for
users
app (do this, then remove this line from the README):docker-compose backend run python manage.py makemigrations
- Run the migrations:
docker-compose backend run python manage.py migrate
- Setup editorconfig, prospector and ESLint in the text editor you will use to develop.
- Open a command line window and go to the project's directory.
pip install -r requirements.txt && pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
npm install
npm run start
- Open another command line window and go to the
backend
directory. workon theprojectname
orsource theprojectname/bin/activate
depending on if you are using virtualenvwrapper or just virtualenv.python manage.py runserver
- Open a command line window and go to the project's directory.
docker-compose up -d
To access the logs for each service rundocker-compose logs -f service_name
(either backend, frontend, etc)
- Open a command line window and go to the project's directory
workon theprojectname
orsource theprojectname/bin/activate
depending on if you are using virtualenvwrapper or just virtualenv.python manage.py celery
make test
Will run django tests using --keepdb
and --parallel
. You may pass a path to the desired test module in the make command. E.g.:
make test someapp.tests.test_views
Add the libname to either requirements.in or dev-requirents.in, then either upgrade the libs with make upgrade
or manually compile it and then, install.
pip-compile requirements.in > requirements.txt
or make upgrade
pip install -r requirements.txt
This project comes with a app.json
file for heroku, that can be used to create an app on heroku from a GitHub repository.
After setting up the project, you can init a repository and push it on GitHub. If your repository is public, you can use the following button:
If you are in a private repository, access the following link replacing $YOUR_REPOSITORY_LINK$
with your repository link.
https://heroku.com/deploy?template=$YOUR_REPOSITORY_LINK$
Remember to fill the ALLOWED_HOSTS
with the URL of your app, the default on heroku is appname.herokuapp.com
. Replace appname
with your heroku app name.
Sentry is already set up on the project. For production, add SENTRY_DSN
environment variable on Heroku, with your Sentry DSN as the value.
You can test your Sentry configuration by deploying the boilerplate with the sample page and clicking on the corresponding button.
The bin/post_compile
script has a step to push Javascript source maps to Sentry, however some environment variables need to be set on Heroku.
You need to enable Heroku dyno metadata on your Heroku App. Use the following command on Heroku CLI:
heroku labs:enable runtime-dyno-metadata -a <app name>
The environment variables that need to be set are:
SENTRY_ORG
- Name of the Sentry Organization that owns your Sentry Project.SENTRY_PROJECT_NAME
- Name of the Sentry Project.SENTRY_API_KEY
- Sentry API key that needs to be generated on Sentry. You can find or create authentication tokens within Sentry.
After enabling dyno metadata and setting the environment variables, your next Heroku Deploys will create a release on Sentry where the release name is the commit SHA, and it will push the source maps to it.
- Manually with
prospector
andnpm run lint
on project root. - During development with an editor compatible with prospector and ESLint.
- Run
pre-commit install
to enable the hook into your git repo. The hook will run automatically for each commit. - Run
git commit -m "Your message" -n
to skip the hook if you need.
Some settings defaults were decided based on Vinta's experiences. Here's the rationale behind them:
We believe Celery tasks should be idempotent. So for us it's safe to set CELERY_ACKS_LATE = True
to ensure tasks will be re-queued after a worker failure. Check Celery docs on "Should I use retry or acks_late?" for more info.
This project, as other Vinta open-source projects, is used in products of Vinta clients. We are always looking for exciting work, so if you need any commercial support, feel free to get in touch: contact@vinta.com.br
Copyright (c) 2018 Vinta Serviços e Soluções Tecnológicas Ltda. MIT License