A cookiecutter template for Django.

• Cutting edge: For Django 1.6 and other bleeding edge stuff
• Twitter Bootstrap 3
• AngularJS
• Settings management via django-configurations
• Registration via django-allauth
• User avatars via django-avatar
• Procfile for deploying to Heroku
• Heroku optimized requirements
• Basic caching setup

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

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/pydanny/cookiecutter-django.git

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

Warning: After this point, change 'Daniel Greenfeld', 'pydanny', etc to your own information.

It prompts you for questions. Answer them:

Cloning into 'cookiecutter-django'...
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 (default is "project_name")? redditclone
repo_name (default is "repo_name")? redditclone
author_name (default is "Your Name")? Daniel Greenfeld
email (default is "Your email")? [email protected]
description (default is "A short description of the project.")? A reddit clone.
year (default is "Current year")? 2013
domain_name (default is "Domain name")?

Enter the project and take a look around:

$ cd redditclone/
$ ls

Create a GitHub repo and push it there:

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "first awesome commit"
$ git remote add origin [email protected]:pydanny/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?

It's time to write the code!!!

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.

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

note: Cookiecutter won't support tagged releases until 0.7.0 comes out, which should be any day! Which means, if you want to use a tagged release of cookiecutter-django, then you have to install Cookiecutter directly from GitHub. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Enter your virtualenv.
2. Run these commands:

(cookiecutter) $ git clone https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter.git
(cookiecutter) cd cookiecutter
(cookiecutter) python setup.py develop

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

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.

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