djtpl is a rather opinionated start to a new Django project. It includes a few things so that you don’t have to worry about dealing with them in order to get up and running.

  • Project structure including templates area, static files area (css and js), and test suite
  • CSS and JS minifier (for development and production)
  • Base HTML template based on the HTML5 boilerplate
  • Some Django apps pre-installed

The goal is to get a new Django project up and running as quickly as possible, without having to fiddle with a lot of configurations or directory structuring each time.

Quickstart

You’ll need virtualenv pre-installed.

virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
pip install django
django-admin.py startproject my_project --template=https://github.com/Brant/djtpl/archive/master.zip
pip install -r my_project/requirements.txt

In the above example, my_project can be replaced by whatever you want your project to be called.

Next, take a look at the pre-configured features offered in djtpl.