django-skel

A modern Django 1.5 project skeleton.

Django is a great framework. Unfortunately, like any framework, it is only as useful as the tools you use with it. This is where django-skel really shines.

django-skel gives you a great project skeleton, complete with:

• Database migrations via South.
• Static file management via django-compressor.
• Task queueing via Celery.
• Helper utilities for working on the command line, via Fabric.
• Fancy documentation generation via Sphinx.
• Awesome local debugging and analysis via django-debug-toolbar.
• Amazon S3 integration (for publishing static assets: css, js, images, etc.) via django-storages.
• CSS compression (for production environments) via cssmin.
• JS compression (for production environments) via jsmin.
• Memcache caching support via django-heroku-memcacheify.
• PostgreSQL support via django-heroku-postgresify.
• A blazing fast WSGI server for serving production traffic via gunicorn and gevent.
• Production application performance monitoring and usage statistics via newrelic.
• All the best practices I’ve come to learn with more than 4 years of Django experience.
• Built in support for production deployments on Heroku’s platform.

But, more importantly, django-skel gives you a really clean, simple, and reliable project template for developers of any experience level.

If you want a best practices approach to Django, use django-skel and you won’t be disappointed!

Follow the Guide Below to Victory!

• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
  • Creating a New Project
  • Install All the Dependencies!
  • Running Your Site Locally
• Layout
• Developing
  • Managing Your Settings
  • Storing Static Assets
  • CSS Best Practices
  • Javascript Best Practices
• Running on Heroku
  • Step 1 - Create Your Heroku Application
  • Step 2 - Install the Addons
  • Step 3 - Configure the Environment
  • Step 4 - Spin It Up!
  • Step 5 - Deploy Your Static Assets
  • Extra Reading

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