Django Starter Project Template

A comprehensive Django project template with pre-configured authentication, extended permission framework, and development tooling to jumpstart new Django applications.

Quick Setup

1. Cloning and Re-initialization of project after making necessary changes.

   $ gh repo clone developermayank/django-starter-template PROJECT_FOLDER
   $ cd PROJECT_FOLDER
   $ rm -rfd .git
   $ git init .
   $ git commit -am 'Project Initialized'
   
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   $ gh repo create --template developermayank/django-starter-template --private --clone LOCAL_DIRECTORY
   
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   $ uv sync

2. Make necessary changes to pyproject.toml regarding project description, version, authors etc.
3. Update the database configuration in config/settings.py if you want to use a database other than SQLite.
4. Rename .env.sample to .env and update the environment variables as needed.
5. Run the development server to verify everything is set up correctly.

   $ uv run manage.py runserver

Features

• Custom Auth User Model
• Extended Permission Framework to support dynamic permissions, without hardcoding into model Meta
• Default VS Code settings with extensions recommendations

Extra Tools

Just

You can install it using winget:

winget install Casey.Just

oha

hatoo.oha is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application. This can be useful for testing the performance of your Django application under load. You can install it using winget:

winget install hatoo.oha

VS Code Settings

• To speed up the terminal git bash intergration

"python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType": "shellStartup"