Django 1.7 generator

Yeoman generator that scaffolds out a Django 1.7 base template with HTML5Boilerplate and Twitter Bootstrap.

About

This template is based off of the work of Two Scoops of Django and Xenith, as well as experience with other Django layouts/project templates.

This project template is designed for Django 1.7.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 or 2.7
• pip
• virtualenv
• NodeJS
• Yeoman

Getting Started

Install generator-django-base from npm:

npm install -g generator-django-base

Make a virtualenv and cd into it:

virtualenv myproject --no-site-packages
cd myproject

Make your project directory and cd into it:

mkdir myproject && cd $_

Run yo django-base:

yo django-base

What do you get?

You get the following directory structure:

.
├── project
│   ├── base
│       ├── models.py
│       ├── urls.py
│       └── views.py
│   ├── static
│       ├── css
│       ├── img
│       └── js
│   ├── templates
│       ├── _layouts
│       ├── base
│       ├── 403.html
│       ├── 404.html
│       └── 500.html
│   ├── project
│       ├── settings
│           ├── base.py
│           ├── local.py
│           └── test.py
│       ├── urls.py
│       └── wsgi.py
├── requirements
│       ├── base.txt
│       ├── local.txt
│       └── test.txt
├── .gitignore
├── bower.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt

Features

By default, this project template includes:

A set of basic templates built from HTML5Boilerplate 4.1.0 and Twitter Bootstrap 3.2.0 (located in the base app, with css and javascript loaded from CloudFlare CDN by default).

Templating

• django_compressor: for compressing javascript/css/less/sass

Security

• bcrypt: uses bcrypt for password hashing by default

Background Tasks

• Celery

Migrations

• Django built-in migrations

Caching

• python-memcached

Admin

• django-debug-toolbar: for development and production (enabled for superusers)

License

MIT License