Should we support Django Channels in some way?

We should update docker-compose.yml to version 3 and set a minimum docker-compose and docker requirement.

Currently Python 3.5 is the minimum requirement. As all recent Linux distributions ship with 3.6 we should make it our default.

This way we are also allowed to use f-strings as of PEP 498

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• For better caching layers requirements.txt files should be copied on by one and pip install executed before copying whole python directory.
• docker ignore files be added with common python file cases (*.pyc etc.)

As described in https://django-rest-framework-json-api.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#filter-backends

To be listed on https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

Docker container should migrate database on start. For this to work in needs to wait for database e.g. with https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it

Best to create an entry point scripts for this to run before uwsgi.

To avoid errors in Dockerfile it should be tested that it successfully builds.

See https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/warnings.html

Current warnings need to be fixed.

Instead of custom Makefile target better to use pytest-cookies for proper testing of template.

See example implementation at https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage/blob/master/tests/test_bake_project.py

• Update requirements.txt of this repository with pyup
• Add example for gitlab how to update dependencies

See example at https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/document-merge-service

We should consider moving towards UUIDv7, as it has some nice benefits compared to v4:

https://uuid7.com/

Might require an additional dependency though, as Python 3.12 does not have built-in support for it yet.

Originally posted by @winged in #392 (comment)

Template needs to add a README.md how project can be build and tests be run.

A list of all available environment variables to be configured is important as well.

See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-factoryboy

• Add user factory
• Helper to easily register factories
• Use factory in test_user

In

We assume that this application is running in a container and there will only one process be running.

If it is still needed to run several services on a server it is recommended to use ENV_FILE anyway for simpler configuration.

Hence DJANGO_ prefix makes the environment variables simply longer but doesn't add anymore information.

Hence we should remove this prefix.

• For gitlab there needs to be a key
• specific configuration in travis and travis example

Introduce a Dockerfile and remove deploy scripts which is kind of manual and outdated.

We should experiment with Pipenv and analyze whether it become the standard and included in this cookie cutter.

See https://github.com/projectcaluma/caluma/blob/master/.pre-commit-config.yaml as example

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Currently there is support for Django admin integration which causes quite a bit of bloat (sessions etc.) and potential security issues.

As best practices should be to integrate Admin into frontend we should remove admin specific settings.

We should evaluate if black is ready for being the default formatter in our DRF projects.

We should start including a K8s/Helm happy path with projects based on this cookiecutter template.