README.md

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About

This is a very simple django 1.7 skeleton project. The project structure was influenced by Two Scoops, which, sadly, is no longer being revised for versions of Django beyond 1.6.

Requirements

• Bower
• Django 1.7

Bower allows us to manage our jQuery and Bootstrap assets easily. We need Django installed in order to use django-admin.py to build a project from the template.

Installation

• Invoke:

    virtualenv env
    . env/bin/activate
    pip install django
    django-admin.py startproject \
        --template=https://github.com/bobbyrussell/django-skeleton-1.7/archive/master.zip \
        --extension=py,md,html,json,.bowerrc <project name>
    cd <project name>
    pip install -r requirements/base.txt
    bower install
    python manage.py runserver
  

• Point your browser to http://localhost:8000/

virtualenv env creates a virtualenv in the env directory, and . env/bin/activate sources the virtualenv into the current shell. pip install django will then install django to your virtualenv. django-admin.py is then used to create a project from the django-skeleton-1.7 template.

cd into the project's working directory and pip install -r requirements/base.txt the rest of the python requirements into the virtualenv. bower install will pull down the frontend dependencies. Finally, we can run python <project_name>/manage.py runserver.

After installation, you can start hacking right away!

License

This code is licensed under the MIT License.