Another Heroku Django Starter Template

A project heavily inspired by https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template & https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel

Features

• Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
• Enhancements to Django's statc file serving functionality via WhiteNoise
• Enhancements to Django's database functionality via django-postgrespool and dj-database-url
• Separate settings and requirements files for development and production environments
• Development debug toolbar installed for local dev environment
• A few more basic starter heroku add-ons added for performance tracking, caching and email

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

1. Create your working environment.
2. Install Django ($ pip install django)
3. Create a new project using this template

Creating Your Project

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

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

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

Required to have Heroku toolbelt installed

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$
$ heroku create
$ # Or to get a desired heroku app-name supply the above command with desired name: `heroku create myhelloworld`
$ git push heroku master
$
$ # replace 'helloworld' with your django project name that you used above to initialize it
$ heroku config:set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='helloworld.settings.prod'
$ heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=`openssl rand -base64 32`
$
$ # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/deployment/checklist/#python-options
$ heroku config:set PYTHONHASHSEED=random
$
$ heroku run python manage.py syncdb

Adding the basic addons to Heroku app

$ heroku addons:add newrelic:stark
$ heroku config:set NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME='helloworld Web Site (Production)'
$ heroku addons:add memcachier
$ heroku addons:add papertrail
$ heroku addons:add mandrill

Now rejoice on setting up the basic django app on heroku, and start developing on local

$ # Personal habit to make manage.py executable. 
$ # instead of `python manage.py runserver` now you can write `./manage.py runserver`
$ chmod +x manage.py

$ # To start local server with debug toolbar just run: 
$ ./manage.py runserver

Further Reading

• Gunicorn
• WhiteNoise
• django-postgrespool
• dj-database-url
• newrelic
• django-heroku-memcacheify
• djrill

TODO:

• Add functionality to facilitate workers