Welcome to wemake-django-template’s documentation!

What this project is all about? The main idea of this project is to provide a fully configured template for django projects, where code quality, testing, documentation, security, and scalability are number one priorities.

This template is a result of implementing our processes, it should not be considered as an independent part.

Goals

When developing this template we had several goals in mind:

  • Development environment should be bootstrapped easily, so we use docker-compose for that

  • Development should be consistent, so we use strict quality and style checks

  • Development, testing, and production should have the same environment, so again we develop, test, and run our apps in docker containers

  • Documentation and codebase are the only sources of truth

Limitations

This project implies that:

  • You are using docker for deployment

  • You are using Gitlab and Gitlab CI

  • You are not using any frontend assets in django, you store your frontend separately

Should I choose this template?

This template is oriented on big projects, when there are multiple people working on it for a long period of time.

If you want to simply create a working prototype without all these limitations and workflows - feel free to choose any other template.

How to start

You should start with reading the documentation. Reading order is important.

There are multiple processes that you need to get familiar with:

  • First time setup phase: what system requirements you must fulfill, how to install dependencies, how to start your project

  • Active development phase: how to make changes, run tests,

Setting things up:

Quality assurance:

Production:

Extras:

Indexes and tables