Sane Django Template

• Current Feature Set
• Installing
• Environment Variables
• Useful Scripts
• Testing
• Test Coverage

A sane template to use as the starting point when creating Django web apps.

Current Feature Set

• 🐳 Container-first (using Docker)
• 🎨 Bootstrap 5.3 with django-libsass and django-compressor
• 🏡 There is a single static page (home)
• 📧 Users can register on the site registration with email verification
• 🔐 Change password and forgot password flow in case of forgotten password
• 🔑 Per-record authorization using django-rules
• 📸 Users can upload a profile image
• 🌗 User preferences page to pick between dark mode, light mode, and auto
• 🧪 Tests with Pytest
• 🧪 Code coverage with coverage
• 🐙 GitHub action to automate tests
• 🔃 Pre-commit hooks
  • black
  • pycln
  • isort

Installing

1. First, install Poetry.

2. (Optional) Configure Poetry to create a .venv environment in the project:

   poetry config virtualenvs.create true
   poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

3. Run this (will create a .venv folder in the project directory, and this folder is gitignored):

   poetry install

4. Install pre-commit hooks:

   pre-commit install

Environment Variables

Before starting the server, copy the contents of file .env.example to .env. This file contains the environment variables and is gitignored.

When making additions/changes to this file, also add the variables to pytest.ini which passes these to the application when testing.

Useful Scripts

To save on typing, I have included the following useful scripts:

Command	Description
./scripts/up.sh	Build and start the server (detached) on localhost:8000
./scripts/down.sh	Stop the server
./scripts/down_up.sh	Runs down.sh then up.sh
./scripts/shell.sh	Run a Django shell
./scripts/seed.sh	Seeds the database
./scripts/regenerate_db_schema.sh	Deletes all migrations, makes migrations, migrates and seeds the db

You can open the scripts to see what they do, but they basically mostly call docker compose.

Note you can also run the server without Docker with:

python manage.py runserver

Testing

poetry shell
pytest

Test Coverage

coverage run -m pytest

Followed by:

coverage html