Django React Boilerplate

About

A Django project boilerplate/template with lots of state of the art libraries and tools like:

• React, for building interactive UIs
• django-js-reverse, for generating URLs on JS
• Bootstrap 4, for responsive styling
• Webpack, for bundling static assets
• Celery, for background worker tasks
• WhiteNoise with brotlipy, for efficient static files serving
• prospector and ESLint with pre-commit for automated quality assurance (does not replace proper testing!)

For continuous integration, a CircleCI configuration circle.yml is included.

Also, includes a Heroku app.json and a working Django production.py settings, enabling easy deployments with 'Deploy to Heroku' button. Those Heroku plugins are included in app.json:

• PostgreSQL, for DB
• Redis, for Celery
• Sendgrid, for e-mail sending
• Papertrail, for logs and platform errors alerts (must set them manually)

This is a good starting point for modern Python/JavaScript web projects.

Project bootstrap

• Open the command line and go to the directory you want to start your project in.
• Start your project using:

django-admin startproject theprojectname --extension py,yml,json --name Procfile,README.md,.env.example --template=https://github.com/vintasoftware/django-react-boilerplate/archive/boilerplate-release.zip

• Above: don't forget the --extension and --name params! (also don't forget to change theprojectname to your project's name).
• Navigate to the project's directory through your command line.
• Install pipenv if not installed yet: pip install pipenv (maybe you'll have to run this command as an OS superuser).
• Make sure you have Python 3.6 installed.
• pipenv install --dev
• Activate the newly created virtualenv with pipenv shell
• npm update --save
• npm update --save-dev
• Check for outdated npm dependencies with npm outdated and update them.
• Change the first line of README to the name of the project.
• Add an email address to the ADMINS settings variable in {{project_name}}/{{project_name}}/settings/base.py
• Change the SERVER_EMAIL to the email address used to send e-mails.

After completing ALL of the above, remove this Project bootstrap section from the project README. Then follow Running below.

Running

Setup

• On project root, do the following:
• Create a copy of {{project_name}}/settings/local.py.example:
   cp {{project_name}}/settings/local.py.example {{project_name}}/settings/local.py (remembering you should replace {{project_name}} with your project's name!).
• Create a copy of .env.example:
  cp .env.example .env
• Create the migrations for users app (do this, then remove this line from the README):
  python manage.py makemigrations
• Run the migrations:
  python manage.py migrate

Tools

• Setup editorconfig, prospector and ESLint in the text editor you will use to develop.

Running the project

• Open a command line window and go to the project's directory.
• pipenv install --dev
• npm install
• npm run start
• Open another command line window and go to the project's directory.
• pipenv shell
• python manage.py runserver

Celery

• Open a command line window and go to the project's directory
• pipenv shell
• python manage.py celery

Testing

make test

Will run django tests using --keepdb and --parallel. You may pass a path to the desired test module in the make command. E.g.:

make test someapp.tests.test_views

Adding new pypi libs

Just run pipenv install LIB_NAME_ON_PYPI and then pipenv lock to lock the version in Pipfile.lock file

Linting

• Manually with prospector and npm run lint on project root.
• During development with an editor compatible with prospector and ESLint.

Pre-commit hooks

• Run pre-commit install to enable the hook into your git repo. The hook will run automatically for each commit.
• Run git commit -m "Your message" -n to skip the hook if you need.

Contributing

How to test django-admin startproject

If you made changes to this boilerplate and want to test them, commit your changes and use git archive -o boilerplate.zip HEAD to create the template zip. Then, do a cd .. and a django-admin startproject theprojectname --extension py,yml,json --name Procfile,README.md,.env.example --template=django-react-boilerplate/boilerplate.zip to test the project bootstrap.

How to test Heroku deployment

Push your changes to a branch and visit https://dashboard.heroku.com/new?template=https://github.com/fill-org-or-user/fill-project-repo-name/tree/fill-branch (replace all fill-*).

How to add a 'Deploy to Heroku' button

Read this.

P.S. if you want to deploy in a different way please check the app.json file for what needs to be configured.

Commercial Support

This project, as other Vinta open-source projects, is used in products of Vinta clients. We are always looking for exciting work, so if you need any commercial support, feel free to get in touch: contact@vinta.com.br

Copyright (c) 2018 Vinta Serviços e Soluções Tecnológicas Ltda. MIT License