Flango Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 2.0, using Flask as a frontend.

How it works

• frontend.py contains your Flask application, which is used for your frontend.
• The django application is routed to /admin.

Features

• Flask for the frontend, using the Django ORM.
• Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
• Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise.
• Latest Python 3.6 runtime environment.

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

1. Create your working environment.
2. Install Django and Flask ($ pipenv install --no-hashes)
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/kennethreitz/flango/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile --name=Pipfile helloworld

(If this doesn't work on windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin)

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

License: MIT

Further Reading

• Flask
• Gunicorn
• WhiteNoise
• dj-database-url