Cookiecutter for making a chill website

Version 0.4.0

Use the python cookiecutter to create a new starter website and follow the prompts.

cookiecutter gh:jkenlooper/cookiecutter-website now=$(date --iso-8601 --utc)

Then read the README.md that was created along with all the other files.

Features

• Documentation for development and deployment.

• Creates a production or development environment stack.

  • ubuntu-18.04
  • systemd
  • NGINX
  • Python 3
  • sqlite3
  • Flask
  • Chill
  • webpack

• Example Python API app in Flask.

• Database driven static website content created by chill.

• Example automated image processing using Makefiles and imagemagick.

• Client-side resources (Javascript, CSS) are built with webpack.

• Deployment files are all generated and isolated in a tar.gz file. This includes compiled CSS and Javascript files.

• CSS is structured to follow best practices.

• Uses design tokens. See README in projects design-tokens directory.

• HTML is rendered on server side via Jinja2 templates.

• Development can be done with a Vagrant virtual machine using VirtualBox.

• Deployment includes setup for https:// support with Let's Encrypt.

• Includes AWStats.

• Changelog for keeping a history of version updates for the website.

• Instructions on regenerating project for future versions of cookiecutter-website

Changelog since 0.1.0