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A ready-to-use Django project tailored for practical, real-world applications, djazz comes with pre-configured essential settings and industry best practices built-in, ensuring a streamlined development process right out of the box. Ideal for developers looking to jumpstart their projects without the hassle of initial setup.

Documentation: Coming soon! 🚧
Live Demo: Coming soon! 🚧
Source Code: https://github.com/azataiot/djazz

• Official website of Djazz, for sharing best practices, resources, tutorials etc. will be available soon at https://djazz.cc
• A robust and well tested django project template, Enterprise projects ready deployment and development.
• Apps will be coming to this template:
  • 'Pages' : An app for handling either static or dynamic pages. Analog to WordPress pages model.
  • 'Blog' : A blog app seems necessary for all django projects nowadays, so we are going to embed an blog application.
  • 'Snippets' : A snippets app that gives you quick reference to code examples !
  • 'Accounts' : An application for user authentication and authorization.
• Tools will be coming to this template:
  • 'Lorem Ipsum' : A Djazz tool to help you quickly mock your data.
  • 'String case converter' : To help you with all that string conversion headache.
• What else you want ? Request future on GitHub Issue or on Discord!

• Free and Open Source: This project is completely free and open source !! Check LICENSE for details.
• Django ^5.0.: The latest version of Django, the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
• PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open-source relational database.
• Powered by Docker: Dockerized development environment for easy setup and deployment.
• Built-in User Authentication and Authorization: Fully functional user authentication and authorization system included.
• Custom User Model: A custom user model is provided out of the box.
• Built-in API: A RESTful API (both django rest framework and django ninja) is included for easy integration with frontend frameworks.
• Django Debug Toolbar: For easy debugging and performance optimization.
• And much more!

• Django: 5.0 or higher
• Python: 3.11 or higher

To run djazz, you need to have Python and Docker installed on your machine. You also need to create an .env file in the root directory (where the manage.py file is located) with the following contents at minimum:

# Profiles
COMPOSE_PROFILES=development
# Django
DEBUG=1
ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,127.0.0.1,[::1],djazz.cc
POSTGRES_DB=djazz
POSTGRES_USER=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
POSTGRES_HOST=db

# Email settings (mailpit)
EMAIL_BACKEND=django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL="Djazz! <[email protected]>"
EMAIL_HOST=mail
EMAIL_PORT=1025
EMAIL_USE_TLS=False
EMAIL_HOST_USER=""
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=""

The easiest way to run djazz is using Docker. Make sure you have Docker installed on your machine.

docker compose --profile debug up

or you can use the djazz CLI tool Coming soon! 🚧 :

This will start the development server and PostgreSQL database as well as the Redis cache server. You can access the development server at http://localhost:8000/.