Cookiecutter Django Gulp

Documentation: https://cookiecutter-django-gulp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
See Troubleshooting for common errors and obstacles

Features

For Django 1.10
Renders Django projects with 100% starting test coverage
Twitter Bootstrap v4.0.0 - alpha
12-Factor based settings via django-environ
Optimized development and production settings
Sass compilation plus CSS, JavaScript and image optimization with Gulp
Works with Python 2.7.x or 3.5.x
Run tests with unittest or py.test

Constraints

Only maintained 3rd party libraries are used.
PostgreSQL everywhere (9.0+)
Environment variables for configuration (This won't work with Apache/mod_wsgi).

Usage

Let's pretend you want to create a Django project called "redditclone". Rather than using startproject and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get cookiecutter to do all the work.

First, get cookiecutter. Trust me, it's awesome:

$ pip install cookiecutter

Now run it against this repo:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/valerymelou/cookiecutter-django-gulp.git

You'll be prompted for some questions, answer them, then it will create a Django project for you.

Warning: After this point, change 'Valery Melou', 'valerymelou', etc to your own information.

Warning: project_slug must be a valid Python module name or you will have issues on imports.

It prompts you for questions. Answer them:

Cloning into 'cookiecutter-django-gulp'...
remote: Counting objects: 550, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (310/310), done.
remote: Total 550 (delta 283), reused 479 (delta 222)
Receiving objects: 100% (550/550), 127.66 KiB | 58 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (283/283), done.
project_name [project_name]: Reddit Clone
project_slug [Reddit_Clone]: reddit
author_name [Your Name]: Valery Melou
email [Your email]: valerymelou@gmail.com
description [A short description of the project.]: A reddit clone.
domain_name [example.com]: myreddit.com
version [0.1.0]: 0.0.1
timezone [UTC]:
windows [n]: n
use_python2 [n]: y
Select open_source_license:
1 - MIT
2 - BSD
3 - GPLv3
4 - Apache Software License 2.0
5 - Not open source
Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [1]: 1

Enter the project and take a look around:

$ cd reddit/
$ 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:valerymelou/redditclone.git
$ git push -u origin master

Now take a look at your repo. Don't forget to carefully look at the generated README. Awesome, right?

For development, see the following for local development:

Developing locally

"Your Stuff"

Scattered throughout the Python and HTML of this project are places marked with "your stuff". This is where third-party libraries are to be integrated with your project.

Releases

Want a stable release? You can find them at https://github.com/valerymelou/cookiecutter-django-gulp/releases

Not Exactly What You Want?

This is what I want. It might not be what you want. Don't worry, you have options:

Fork This

If you have differences in your preferred setup, I encourage you to fork this to create your own version. Once you have your fork working, let me know and I'll add it to a 'Similar Cookiecutter Templates' list here. It's up to you whether or not to rename your fork.

If you do rename your fork, I encourage you to submit it to the following places:

cookiecutter so it gets listed in the README as a template.
The cookiecutter grid on Django Packages.

Or Submit a Pull Request

I also accept pull requests on this, if they're small, atomic, and if they make my own project development experience better.