A Yeoman generator for a Django REST API that makes you efficient, includes features you need in a typical modern web app, yet keeps things simple.

Note: the project is still considered to be in alpha until I get a chance to test it on more apps!

The philosophy is to include features useful across projects that are tedious to set up from scratch. So far we've got

• quick to launch 🚀 – start a new project and deploy it to Heroku in 3 commands:

    yo django-rest
    ./scripts/devsetup.sh
    ./scripts/deploy.sh
  

• productive ⚡️ – start the Django & DB dev servers easily

    ./scripts/dev.sh
  

• sane logging 📜 – defaults to fail nicely

• modern JS 🦄 – serve static files on / using Whitenoise for nice single-page apps using React / Angular2 / Vue and the like

• 12-factor config 🤓 – environment variable configuration

  • define a variable in .env for dev e.g. REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0
  • use it in settings.py, e.g. CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = env('REDIS_URL')
  • set variables on the prod server (just works™ with Redis on Heroku)

• batteries included 🔋

  • Celery with a Redis backend – cause you'll need an async task queue
  • Backblaze B2 media file storage backend (optional)

• familiar 🐶 – check out the rough project file layout, it's much like django-admin startproject myproject would set it up (only repeats the project name twice, i.e. ~/code/myproject/myproject/settigns.py)

To begin, your computer first needs node.js. Once you have that, you need Yeoman pre-installed. Yeoman lives in the npm package repository. You only have to ask for him once, then he packs up and moves into your hard drive.

npm install -g yo

Then, we need the django-rest generator, i.e. plug-in. You install generator-django-rest from npm.

npm install -g generator-django-rest

Finally, for every new project you would initiate the generator in an empty folder.

mkdir myproject
cd myproject
yo django-rest

Now check HACKING.md for extra instructions.

MIT