Django packages

Michele Mattioni@mattions

Three main categories

● Serving static files● Users registration● Settings splitting

Serving Static

● Ready to deploy● collectstatic● Launching gunicorn

You could read the docs...

● Django does not serve static.● You have to run collect static● You need to server them via nginx or apache

For an easy solution

● Use WhiteNoise!

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whitenoise

Static files: the struggle

Writing time● SASS● LESS● CooffeScript● Javascript

Serving time● One file for CSS● One file for JS

Use django-pipeline

https://django-pipeline.readthedocs.org● Automatically Compiles SASS and LESS in

CSS during debug time● Minification and concatanation happens at

collectstatic time.

Let's go to the User Registration

User registration

● Starting a django project with User registration already embedded?

https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-account

django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-account/zipball/master <project_name>

Goodies

● Sign In/Log in● Email with link to activate user● Password reset● Account Deletion● Based on bootstrap3 forms

Settings split

settings.py → settings/__init__.py

settings/common.py

settings/dev.py

settings/prod.py

Pick the proper settings settings:● DJANGO_MODULE_SETTINGS=myproject.settings.dev

● DJANGO_MODULE_SETTINGS=myproject.settings.prod

How to combine settings

# dev.py

from common import *

DEBUG = True

# prod.py

from common import *

DEBUG = False

Conclusion

● django-whitenoise● django-pipeline● pinax-account-project● Split settings into singular file

Thank you