README.md

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About

This is a very simple django 1.8 skeleton project. The project structure was influenced by Two Scoops, which, sadly, is no longer being revised for versions of Django beyond 1.6.

Django Skeleton 1.8 is a fork of my Django Skeleton 1.7 project.

Requirements

• Bower
• Django 1.8

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-1.8/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-1.8 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.