Heroku Django Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 3.0.

Features

• Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
• Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise.
• Latest Python 3.8.3 runtime environment.

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

1. Create your working environment.
2. Install Django ( $ pipenv install django )
3. Create a new project using this template

Creating Your Project

Create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --name=Procfile helloworld

(If this doesn't work on windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin )

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

See also, a ready-made application, ready to deploy.

License: MIT

Further Reading

• Gunicorn
• WhiteNoise
• dj-database-url