Django Starter

This is a basic django project setup.

Steps to follow

• Clone this repository (choose the right branch as your need)

• Check python runtime (Compatible Python version) in runtime.txt file. Update runtime.txt if needed.

• Create virtual environment venv according to python runtime defined in runtime.txt file.

  Using Virtualenv, run the following command in the root directoroy of this repository. It will create a virtual environment inside venv directory.

  virtualenv venv
  

  You have to activate virtualenv to work with this environment. To activate venv run the dollowing command:

  # for windows machine
  venv\Scripts\activate
  
  # for linux machine
  source venv/bin/activate
  

• Install packages using pip.

  There are to requirements file named main_requirements.txt and requirements.txt. First one is only listed the main pacakages without it's version and dependencies. And second one was generated using pip freeze > requirements.txt command after intalling packages beginning of this project. It is recommended to use latest version of these packages and to do that main_requirements.txt can be installed.

  • For the latest versions run the following command

    pip install -r main_requirements.txt
    

  • OR For the starter versions run the following command

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    

• Create .env file in the root directory of this repository and update it's content according to your project. List of required environment variable list are given in the .env.example file. Follow the python-decouple packeg's rules for more customisations.

• RUN the the server after activating venv.

  python manage.py runserver
  

• That's it in starter phage. Now it's your time to build something cool!

  Happy coding :)