At bitmazk we create accessible and responsive websites. After nearly 10 years of web development it turned out that a simple nginx / apache / django / django-cms stack works best for us and our customers.
To streamline the process of setting up new projects for new customers we created this boilerplate. This script should automatically setup your virtual environment, initiate your database and collect your static files all in one command (init.sh). Stop peeling. Start cooking!
- automated setup of your virtualenv
- html5 ready
- based on django-cms
- ready for mobile browsers thanks to the 1140px-CSS-framework
- using django-compressor for combining, compressing and minifying static files
- SASS support
- ready for deployment at Webfaction
You will need quite some tools such as virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, csstidy, sass and some more. Have a look at our bitmazk-environment for a full list of tools and libraries needed.
IMPORTANT: Be very sure that you have virtualenvwrapper installed properly. We added a check for virtualenvwrapper.sh but who knows, maybe you get around that - and without virtualenvwrapper this script might pollute your global python environment with unwanted modules.
- Clone this repository,
- initiate the project
git clone git://github.com/bitmazk/django-cms-html5-1140px-boilerplate.git yourproject
cd yourproject
./bin/init.shThat's it!
We are standing on the shoulders of giants and use the awesome html5-boilerplate as a submodule.
Usually the main .css file that comes with the html5-boilerplate has a part somewhere in the middle of the file where your very own styles should go. In order to be able to define these styles with SASS initproject.sh slices that main .css file into two pieces. Now you can define your own styles in a .sass file and let django-compressor take care of combining and compressing everything.
Unfortunately we have to inject quite some django specific code into the index.html that comes with the html5-boilerplate. Therefore this repo ships with its own base.html and we don't ever touch the html5-boilerplate's index.html. Maybe this can be automated in the future so that our base.html will be generated out of index.html but for now be warned: Our base.html might not reflect latest and important changes to the html5-boilerplate's index.html. We will try to monitor changes there and add them to our base.html manually but we are just humans. And we are damn busy. So you better check it yourself as well.
If you find our base.html horribly outdated, please create an issue and we will take care quickly.
You might wonder about the folder structure of this project. We chose this structure because it reflects the structure on our hosted webservers at our awesome webhost Webfaction.
We usually have two static apps for serving static and media files plus one django app for serving the django application. A deployment script on the server checks out the repository and copies everything to its destination via rsync.
For a complete boilerplate script to hosting your django-cms project at Webfaction, see our webfaction-django-cms-boilerplate