Heroku Django Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 3.2

Features

• Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
• Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise.
• Latest Python 3.7 runtime environment.

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

1. Create your working environment.
2. Install Django ($ pip install django==3.2.*)
3. Create a new project using this template
4. Delete this file (README.md)

Creating Your Project

Using this template to create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/hut42/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile --name README.rst helloworld

(If this doesn't work on Windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin)

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Documentation

To build the documentation, install the documentation requirements from requirements_docs.txt:

pip install -r requirements_docs.txt

Then use Sphinx to build the docs:

make -C docs html

Compiled docs can be found in the :code:docs/_build directory.