/heroku-django-template

A Django 2.0 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 3.0.

Features

  • Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
  • Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise.
  • Latest Python 3.6 runtime environment.

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

  1. Create your working environment.
  2. Install Django ($ pipenv 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

(If this doesn't work on windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin)

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

See also, a ready-made application, ready to deploy.

License: MIT

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