Django on App Engine Example

Run Django projects on Google App Engine Platform. This is a base project developed for using Django non-rel on Google App Engine.

Introduction

I started using python on Google App Engine but then I need something more powerful than the great webapp2 framework. Mainly something like the Django admin so after a research finished using with the great iniciative of Django non-rel.

Although you can use Django on App Engine third-party Django applications that use the Django data modeling interface—most notably Django's Admin application—may not work with App Engine directly. source

Features

• Administrable global configurations with django-solo
• Translation ready. Template and cacheable JS translation. Language selector in the index template.
• Translatable fields in models with Model translation
• WYSIWYG editor for admin with summernote
• Cache enabled by default. Add @never_cache decorator to the views that must not be cached
• Base template with Initializr.

Installation

• Download and install the App Engine SDK for python
• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/leopittelli/Django-Google-App-Engine-Base-Project.git
• Run the app as usual, with the App Engine Launcher or in the command line: dev_appserver.py myapp

Usage

You can start in the folder main. It intends to be the main django app in your project. You can add your models, views and so on.

Third-party libraries

As you can not install any app/library in App Engine, all the dependencies must be part of the source code. Django non-rel and its dependencies are all added in the project. Also the applications described in features.

Deployment

• Remember to run python manage.py collectstatic in the root of the project to collect all the staticfiles into the /static folder.
• Uncomment the static handler in the app.yaml file.
• Deploy as usual. I recommend the button of the App Engine Launcher.