An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 1.7.
- 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
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/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile helloworld
You can replace helloworld
with your desired project name.
$ git init
$ git add -A
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run python manage.py syncdb