A project heavily inspired by https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template & https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel
- 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
To use this project, follow these steps:
- Create your working environment.
- Install Django (
$ pip install django) - Create a new project using this template
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.
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
$ 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
$ # 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
- Add functionality to facilitate workers