A framework for launching new Django projects quickly. Comes with a custom user model, email/password authentication, options for social authentication via Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc, and static assets.

NOTE: This open source project is supported by my three published books: Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals.

Features

• For Django 2.2 and Python 3.7
• Modern virtual environments with pipenv
• Styling with Bootstrap v4.1.3
• Custom user model
• Email/password for log in/sign up instead of Django's default username/email/password pattern
• Social authentication via django-allauth
• django-debug-toolbar

First-time setup

1. Make sure Python 3.7x and Pipenv are already installed. See here for help.
2. Clone the repo and configure the virtual environment:

$ git clone https://github.com/wsvincent/djangox.git
$ cd djangox
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv shell

3. Set up the initial migration for our custom user models in users and build the database.

(djangox) $ python manage.py makemigrations users
(djangox) $ python manage.py migrate

4. Create a superuser:

(djangox) $ python manage.py createsuperuser

5. Confirm everything is working:

(djangox) $ python manage.py runserver

Load the site at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

Next Steps

• Use PostgreSQL locally via Docker
• Use django-environ for environment variables
• Update EMAIL_BACKEND to configure an SMTP backend
• Make the admin more secure

Adding Social Authentication

• Configuring Google
• Configuring Facebook
• Configuring Github
• django-allauth supports many, many other providers in the official docs