My preferred minimal Django setup which includes:
- django-allauth with email address as the username
- django-rest-framework
- django-classy-settings to manage various environment settings
Installation:
virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install django
django-admin.py startproject <project_name> . --template=https://github.com/rapilabs/django-template/archive/master.zip
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r dev-requirements.txt