A heavily personalized project template for Django 1.7.1 using Postgres for development and production. Ready to deploy on Heroku with a bunch of other goodies.
Forked from the original django-two-scoops-project
Prerequisites: django
To create a new Django project, run the following command replacing PROJECT_NAME with your actual project name:
django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/imkevinxu/django-kevin/archive/master.zip --extension=py,md,html,json,coveragerc PROJECT_NAME
Afterwards please reference the actual README.md
you just created in your new project folder, all the references to {{ project_name }} will be changed accordingly.
Prerequisites: virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper
cd {{ project_name }}
mkvirtualenv {{ project_name }}-dev && add2virtualenv `pwd`
mkvirtualenv {{ project_name }}-prod && add2virtualenv `pwd`
mkvirtualenv {{ project_name }}-test && add2virtualenv `pwd`
For development:
workon {{ project_name }}-dev
pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
For production:
workon {{ project_name }}-prod
pip install -r requirements.txt
For testing:
workon {{ project_name }}-test
pip install -r requirements/test.txt
Prerequisites: node
sudo npm install
Prerequisites: homebrew
In order to use the grunt task runner you need to install it globally:
npm install -g grunt-cli
In order to be able to lint SCSS files locally you need ruby
on your local system and a certain gem. See https://github.com/ahmednuaman/grunt-scss-lint#scss-lint-task
gem install scss-lint
In order to use django-pipeline for post-processing, you need yuglify
installed on your local system:
npm install -g yuglify
In order for grunt to notify you of warnings and when the build is finished, you need a notification system installed. Below is the Mac OSX notification command-line tool:
brew install terminal-notifier
In order to use Redis for caching and queuing, you need to download it and have it running in the background. This will also set redis-server
to automatically run at launch:
brew install redis
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
The environment variables for development sets the appropriate DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
and PYTHONPATH
in order to use django-admin.py
seemlessly. Necessary for Foreman and other worker processes
.env.dev
is not version controlled so the first person to create this project needs to create a .env.dev
file for Foreman to read into the environment. Future collaboraters need to email the creator for it.
echo DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.dev >> .env.dev
echo PYTHONPATH={{ project_name }} >> .env.dev
echo PYTHONUNBUFFERED=True >> .env.dev
echo PYTHONWARNINGS=ignore:RemovedInDjango18Warning >> .env.dev
echo CACHE=dummy >> .env.dev
Recommended to use foreman to use development environment variables and processes:
echo "env: .env.dev" > .foreman
echo "procfile: Procfile.dev" >> .foreman
Prerequisites: Postgres and Heroku Toolbelt
Install Postgres for your OS here. For Max OSX the easiest option is to download and run Postgres.app.
# Make sure Postgres.app is running
workon {{ project_name }}-dev
createdb {{ project_name }}-dev
foreman run django-admin.py migrate
Use the right virtual environment:
workon {{ project_name }}-dev
Start the server with:
foreman start
Create a local super user with:
foreman run django-admin.py createsuperuser
To run one-off commands use:
foreman run django-admin.py COMMAND
To enable Live Reload, download and turn on a browser extension.
The environment variables for production must contain a separate SECRET_KEY
for security and the appropriate DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
and PYTHONPATH
in order to use django-admin.py
seemlessly. Hacky use of date | md5
to generate a pseudo-random string.
.env
is not version controlled so the first person to create this project needs to create a .env
file for Foreman and Heroku to read into the environment. Future collaboraters need to email the creator for it.
echo SECRET_KEY=`date | md5` >> .env
echo DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.prod >> .env
echo PYTHONPATH={{ project_name }} >> .env
echo WEB_CONCURRENCY=3 >> .env
echo PYTHONUNBUFFERED=True >> .env
echo PYTHONWARNINGS=ignore:RemovedInDjango18Warning >> .env
echo BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git >> .env
Prerequisites: Heroku Toolbelt and heroku-config
First step is to deploy to Heroku with the post_compile
script in /bin
so that node functions can be installed for python to call them.
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Ready for initial Heroku deploy"
heroku create
heroku config:push
git push heroku master
After post_compile
is successful, uncomment the line with the variable STATICFILES_STORAGE
in /{{ project_name }}/config/settings/base.py
to enable django-pipeline and push again.
git commit -am "Enabled django-pipeline"
git push heroku master
heroku run django-admin.py migrate
heroku open
To run one-off commands like createsuperuser
use:
heroku run django-admin.py COMMAND
Set the .foreman
file to use production environment variables and processes:
echo "env: .env" > .foreman
echo "procfile: Procfile" >> .foreman
Use the right virtual environment:
workon {{ project_name }}-prod
This is meant to mimic production as close as possible using both the production database and environment settings so proceed with caution.
WARNING: If this project has SSL turned on, localhost:5000 won't work anymore because it will always try to redirect to https://localhost:5000. To fix this comment out the SECURITY CONFIGURATION section in /{{ project_name }}/config/settings/prod.py
heroku config:pull
foreman run django-admin.py collectstatic --noinput
foreman start
The site will be located at localhost:5000
The environment variables for testing sets the appropriate DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
and PYTHONPATH
in order to use django-admin.py
seemlessly. Necessary for Foreman and other worker processes
.env.test
is not version controlled so the first person to create this project needs to create a .env.test
file for Foreman to read into the environment. Future collaboraters need to email the creator for it.
echo DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.test >> .env.test
echo PYTHONPATH={{ project_name }} >> .env.test
echo PYTHONUNBUFFERED=True >> .env.test
echo PYTHONWARNINGS=ignore:RemovedInDjango18Warning >> .env.test
Set the .foreman
file to use testing environment variables and processes:
echo "env: .env.test" > .foreman
echo "procfile: Procfile.test" >> .foreman
Use the right virtual environment:
workon {{ project_name }}-test
And have static assets prepared (for coverage tests):
foreman run django-admin.py collectstatic --noinput
Automatically run all tests and linters and watch files to continuously run tests:
foreman start
You can view the results of the tests in HTML at localhost:9000/tests
You can specifically view the results of Django coverage tests at localhost:9000/tests/django
Grunt automatically compiles Jasmine tests written in CoffeeScript at /{{ project_name }}/static/js/tests/coffee
and runs the tests upon every save.
You can specifically view the results of Jasmine JS unit tests at localhost:9000/tests/jasmine
You can specifically view the results of JS coverage tests at localhost:9000/tests/jasmine/coverage.html
Enable SSL via Heroku, Cloudflare, or your DNS provider and then uncomment the SECURITY CONFIGURATION section in /{{ project_name }}/config/settings/prod.py
to enable django-secure and other security best practices for production.
Scripts can be programmed to be run on the command-line using Invoke for repeated tasks like deployment, building, or cleaning. Write your tasks in tasks.py
.
In order to enable redis for caching and queues, add Redis Cloud to Heroku.
heroku addons:add rediscloud:25
Add a Redis Queue worker process to Procfile:
echo "worker: django-admin.py rqworker high default low" >> Procfile
Push the changed Procfile to Heroku:
git add Procfile
git commit -m "Added worker process to Procfile, pushing to Heroku"
git push heroku master
Turn on background job worker with this one-liner:
heroku scale worker=1
Add a RQ Scheduler process to Procfile:
echo "scheduler: rqscheduler --url \$REDISCLOUD_URL" >> Procfile
Push the changed Procfile to Heroku:
git add Procfile
git commit -m "Added scheduler process to Procfile, pushing to Heroku"
git push heroku master
Turn on background job scheduler with this one-liner:
heroku scale scheduler=1
To use Amazon S3 as a static and media file storage, create a custom Group and User via IAM and then a custom static bucket and media bucket with public read policies.
Add the following config variables to Heroku:
heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=INSERT_ACCESS_KEY_ID
heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=INSERT_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
heroku config:set AWS_STATIC_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME={{ project_name }}-static
heroku config:set AWS_MEDIA_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME={{ project_name }}-media
PG Backups is a Heroku add-on for automatic Postgres database backups. Enable with the following one-liner:
heroku addons:add pgbackups:auto-month
- Librato for Heroku performance monitoring
- New Relic for server performance monitoring
- RedisMonitor for Redis server monitoring
- Logentries provides logging backups as well as search and notifications. Can also additionally backup to S3
- Sentry for error tracking with Raven as the client. Make sure to use a synchronous blocking transport.
- Ranger to alert you when your app is down
- Rainforest RQ for simple integration testing
- Tinfoil Security for regularly scanning your app for security vulnerabilities
- Loader.io for load testing
Includes a fancy badge for GitHub README
- Travis CI for continuous integration testing
- Coveralls.io for coverage testing
- Requires.io for dependency management
- Filepicker for file uploading and content management
- Twilio for sending SMS, MMS, and Voice. Recommended to use
django-twilio
- Mailgun or Sendgrid for email sending. Here are some useful email templates
- MailChimp for email newsletters or create your own custom newsletter emails
Currently using Django 1.7.1 for the app framework
- bpython 0.13.1 - Advanced python interpreter/REPL
- defusedxml 0.4.1 - Secure XML parser protected against XML bombs
- dj-static 0.0.6 - Serve production static files with Django
- django-authtools 1.0.0 - Custom User model classes such as
AbstractEmailUser
andAbstractNamedUser
- django-braces 1.4.0 - Lots of custom mixins
- django-extensions 1.4.4 - Useful command line extensions (
shell_plus
,create_command
,export_emails
) - django-floppyforms 1.2.0 - Control of output of form rendering
- django-model-utils 2.2 - Useful model mixins and utilities such as
TimeStampedModel
andChoices
- django-pipeline 1.3.25 - CSS and JS compressor and compiler. Also minifies HTML
- django-redis 3.7.1 - Enables redis caching
- django-rq 0.7.0 - Django integration for RQ
- invoke 0.9.0 - Python task execution in
tasks.py
- logutils 0.3.3 - Nifty handlers for the Python standard library’s logging package
- project-runpy 0.3.1 - Helpers for Python projects like ReadableSqlFilter
- psycopg2 2.5.4 - PostgreSQL adapter
- python-magic 0.4.6 - Library to identify uploaded files' headers
- pytz 2014.7 - World timezone definitions
- requests 2.4.3 - HTTP request API
- rq-scheduler 0.5.0 - Job scheduling capabilities to RQ
- six 1.8.0 - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities
- static 1.1.1 - Serves static and dynamic content
- unicode-slugify 0.1.1 - A slugifier that works in unicode
- Werkzeug 0.9.6 - WSGI utility library with powerful debugger
- django-debug-toolbar 1.2.1 - Debug information in a toolbar
- django-sslserver 0.14 - SSL localhost server
- Collectfast 0.2.1 - Faster collectstatic
- boto 2.34.0 - Python interface to AWS
- dj-database-url 0.3.0 - Allows Django to use database URLs for Heroku
- django-secure 1.0.1 - Django security best practices
- django-storages 1.1.8 - Custom storage backends; using S3
- gunicorn 19.1.0 - Production WSGI server with workers
- coverage 3.7.1 - Measures code coverage
- nose-exclude 0.2.0 - Easily specify directories to be excluded from testing
- django-nose 1.2 - Django test runner using nose
- factory-boy 2.4.1 - Test fixtures replacement for Python
- flake8 2.2.5 - Python style checker
- colorstreamhandler.py - Colored stream handler for python logging framework
- tdaemon.py - Test daemon in Python modified to work with django-admin.py, django-nose, and coverage
Using post_compile
script for the Heroku python environment to recognize node packages
- yuglify 0.1.4 - UglifyJS and cssmin compressor
Locally using node and grunt to watch and compile frontend files
- coffee-script ^1.8.0 - Cleaner JavaScript
- grunt ~0.4.5 - Automatic Task Runner
- grunt-autoprefixer ^1.0.1 - Parse CSS and add vendor-prefixed CSS properties
- grunt-coffeelint 0.0.13 - Lint your CoffeeScript
- grunt-concurrent ^1.0.0 - Run grunt tasks concurrently
- grunt-contrib-clean ^0.6.0 - Clear files and folders
- grunt-contrib-coffee ^0.11.1 - Compile CoffeeScript files to JavaScript
- grunt-contrib-connect ^0.8.0 - Start a static web server
- grunt-contrib-copy ^0.6.0 - Copy files and folders
- grunt-contrib-imagemin ^0.8.1 - Minify PNG, JPEG, GIF, and SVG images
- grunt-contrib-jasmine ^0.8.0 - Run jasmine specs headlessly through PhantomJS
- grunt-contrib-watch ^0.6.1 - Run tasks whenever watched files change
- grunt-newer ^0.7.0 - Configure Grunt tasks to run with changed files only
- grunt-notify ^0.3.1 - Automatic desktop notifications for Grunt
- grunt-open ^0.2.3 - Open urls and files from a grunt task
- grunt-sass ^0.14.1 - Compile Sass to CSS
- grunt-scss-lint ^0.3.3 - Lint your SCSS
- grunt-shell ^1.1.1 - Run shell commands
- grunt-template-jasmine-istanbul ^0.3.0 - Code coverage template mix-in for grunt-contrib-jasmine, using istanbul
- grunt-text-replace ^0.3.12 - General purpose text replacement for grunt
- load-grunt-config ^0.13.1 - Grunt plugin that lets you break up your Gruntfile config by task
- time-grunt ^1.0.0 - Display the elapsed execution time of grunt tasks
- SS-Standard 1.005 - Standard icon library as a font. Documentation located locally at
/{{ project_name }}/static/css/fonts/ss-standard/documentation.html
- Bootstrap 3.2.0 - CSS/JS starting framework
- jQuery 1.11.1 - Useful JS functions
- Bootstrap 3.2.0 - CSS/JS starting framework
- Underscore.js 1.7.0 - Very useful functional programming helpers
- CSRF.js - Django Cross Site Request Forgery protection via AJAX
- Jasmine-Ajax 2.0.1 - Set of helpers for testing AJAX requests with Jasmine
- Jasmine-jQuery 2.0.5 - Set of jQuery helpers for Jasmine
This project follows best practices as espoused in Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.6.
- Daniel Greenfield and Audrey Roy for writing the book
- All of the contributors to the original fork