django-init is a Django 3 starting template that allows you to kickstart a project without setup hassle and complexity, while maintaining a best practice project structure with up to date dependencies.

• Django 3 (Django>=3.0)
• Python (python:3.8-slim)
• MariaDB server/client (mariadb:10.5-focal)
• sqlite3 (default, see settings.py)
• netcat as a dependency of wait-for
• requirements.txt

• Custom default User (Django 3 implementation)
• .env file support (https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ)
• The username is the email address (How do you like this?)
• Preconfigured settings for SMTP, MySQL, sqlite3, caching, ...
• i18n enabled and substituted datetime.now() by timezone.now()
• "hello world" view and template

This template is preconfigured to work with docker-compose out of the box (see docker-compose.yml). For best performance, the executed code is mounted host authoritive (cached) while the MySQL data files are mounted container authoritive (delegated).

$ git clone https://github.com/flowl/django-init
$ cd django-init/
$ make build

Copy the .env.dist file to .env and set a random token for SECRET_KEY.

Apply initial migrations:

$ make migrate

Create a superuser and the cache table:

$ make cachetable
$ make superuser

Start:

$ make start
$ make log

Visit http://localhost:8070.

If you have traefik installed, you can also go to http://djangoinit.localhost straight.

The admin url is http://djangoinit.localhost/en/admin/

Please edit apps/Application/settings.py and .env respectively:

• SECRET_KEY, AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS
• DEBUG, ALLOWED_HOSTS
• DATABASES (MySQL container and sqlite3)
• CACHES (using MySQL)
• EMAIL_BACKEND and SMTP settings

See the Makefile for available commands.

https://github.com/flowl/django-init

Maintained by Daniel Wendler.

Distributed under the MIT License.