A privacy-focused and secure CMS made with Python & Django.

DevCase was designed for developers and IT professionals. It is a tool to help you get your own blog and portfolio online quickly and easily.

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Features

• Responsive and uniqe design
• Configuration via Django-Admin
• Blog
• Portfolio & Project-Showcase
• Social Media Links/Icons
• About-Me with Skills (optional with downloadable Resume)
• Markdown support with Syntaxhighlight and TOC
• Contact-Form (with captchas)
• RSS
• Search
• Dynamic Pages (Footer)
• Dark Django-Admin Theme
• Settings for Favicon
• Optimized for good SEO
• Dynamic sitemap.xml and robots.txt
• Settings for S3 compatible-storage (optional)
• Commenting System (with captchas)
• Email notification (optional)
• Supports Umami, Plausible analytics (optional)

Demo/Example: rburkhardt.com

Table of contents

• Features
• Table of contents
• Screenshots
• Quick-Start (Docker)
• Local Development
  • Setup
  • Frontend
  • Tests
• Settings & Example .env
• Deployment Notes
  • DigitalOcean App Platform
  • SSL / HSTS
  • S3 Storage
  • Admin Location
  • Sitemap.xml
  • Robots.txt
  • Email & Notification
  • Umami Analytics
  • Plausible Analytics
• Contribution
• Todo/Roadmap
• Acknowledgements
• License

Screenshots

Home

About

Blogpost with image (new version has comments-system)

Blogpost without image (new version has comments-system)

Contact Page (new version has captchas)

Admin Dashboard

Admin - About Config

Quick-Start (Docker)

The fastest and easiest way to test dev-case locally:

git clone git@github.com:rob32/dev-case.git
cd dev-case
docker-compose up -d --build
docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate
docker-compose exec web python manage.py createsuperuser

Important:

Create a new .env file with the following content (before docker-compose up -d --build):

DEBUG=True
DATABASE_URL=psql://postgres:postgres@db:5432/postgres

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and check if all worked.

Local Development

Development environment with Python (venv) and Node (optional).

Setup

Tested with GNU/Linux & Mac:

git clone git@github.com:rob32/dev-case.git
cd dev-case
python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
python3 manage.py migrate
pre-commit install

create a .env file with at least the following content:

DEBUG=True
# only if postgres is used, uncomend the next line (example):
# DATABASE_URL=psql://postgres:postgres@db:5432/postgres

Start the Development-Server with python3 manage.py runserver

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Frontend

# Install dependecies with:
npm install

# Build "Fronted" manually (uses `rm -rf` for cleaning):
npm run build

Optional: Start Backend-Server and Esbuild in watch-mode at the same time with npm start.

Tests

# Unit/Integration Tests:
python3 manage.py test

# Code Quality with the help of pre-commit
pre-commit run -a -v

Settings & Example .env

A selection of possible settings via environment variables:

SECRET_KEY=insecure-secretkey12345
DEBUG=FALSE
ALLOWED_HOSTS=my-domain-name.com
DATABASE_URL=psql://postgres:postgres@db:5432/postgres
ADMIN_LOCATION=dev-case/
ROBOTS_DISALLOW=/contact/,/private-file.html`

FEED_TITLE="My Feed Title"
FEED_DESCRIPTION="My feed description"

USE_UMAMI_ANALYTICS=True
UMAMI_SCRIPT_URL=https://your-umami-app.com/umami.js
UMAMI_DATA_WEBSITE_ID=2323-3232-2323-3232

Deployment Notes

WIP

For deployment/production there are two branches at the moment:

• DO’s App Platform: prod-app-platform
• Traditional (VPS, Nginx etc.): main
• Docker-Compose: WIP

DigitalOcean App Platform

For DigitalOcean’s App Platform you can use the "Deploy to DigitalOcean" button below. Please make sure you have a working S3 space/bucket with the required credentials. Guide: How To Create a DigitalOcean Space and API Key

After the build process completes:

Access your app’s console through the Console tab and run the following commands:

• python3 manage.py migrate for the initial database migrations
• python3 manage.py createsuperuser to create an administrative user

As a last step, make the following adjustment in your Space setting:

Your Space -> Settings -> CORS Configurations (Add):

• Add your domain (with wildcard) in "Origin", examples:
  • *ondigitalocean.app
  • *example.com
• Allow/Check:
  • GET, HEAD

This should solve the problem with the fonts (missing header, Access-Control-Allow-Origin)

SSL / HSTS

Possible settings for production (via environment variables):

SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=True
SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS=2592000
SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS=True
SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD=True

SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=True
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE=True

S3 Storage

Make sure that USE_S3_STORAGE is set to True.

Possible settings for S3 compatible storage (via environment variables):

USE_S3_STORAGE (default=False)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
AWS_S3_REGION_NAME
AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL
AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN
AWS_LOCATION
AWS_IS_GZIPPED (default=False)
AWS_S3_FILE_OVERWRITE (default=True)
AWS_DEFAULT_ACL (default=public-read)

Admin Location

You can change the location for the admin area using the ADMIN_LOCATION environment variable. Default is admin/.

Sitemap.xml

Change DOMAIN NAME and DISPLAY NAME via Admin-Panel (Sites App) to your actual domain name. Default is set to "example.com".

Robots.txt

To add Disallow rules, use the ROBOTS_DISALLOW environment variable. For a valid Sitemap entry change your domain name as described in Sitemap.xml.

Example: ROBOTS_DISALLOW=/contact/,/private-file.html

Email & Notification

To receive notifications you can configure the following settings via environment variables:

USE_EMAIL_SMTP (default=False)
EMAIL_NOTIFICATION (default=False)
EMAIL_RECIPIENT (receiver address)

EMAIL_HOST
EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
EMAIL_USE_TLS (default=True)
EMAIL_USE_SSL (default=False)
EMAIL_PORT (default=587)
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

Make sure that USE_EMAIL_SMTP and EMAIL_NOTIFICATION is set to True.

The DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL variable needs to have a valid value (example: admin@example.com).

This will notify you when there are new comments or when you receive a message via the contact page.

If you also want to be notified in case of server errors, set the environment variable DJANGO_ADMINS with your name and email address. Example:

DJANGO_ADMINS=YourName:example@example.com

# or more
DJANGO_ADMINS=NameOne:name-one@example.com,NameTwo:name-two@example.com

Umami Analytics

Make sure that the USE_UMAMI_ANALYTICS environment variable is set to True.

Additionally create a UMAMI_SCRIPT_URL and UMAMI_DATA_WEBSITE_ID environment variable with the corresponding values.

Example:

USE_UMAMI_ANALYTICS=True
UMAMI_SCRIPT_URL=https://your-umami-app.com/umami.js
UMAMI_DATA_WEBSITE_ID=2323-3232-2323-3232

Plausible Analytics

Make sure that the USE_PLAUSIBLE_ANALYTICS environment variable is set to True.

Additionally create a PLAUSIBLE_SCRIPT_URL and PLAUSIBLE_DATA_DOMAIN environment variable with the corresponding values.

Example:

USE_PLAUSIBLE_ANALYTICS=True
PLAUSIBLE_SCRIPT_URL=https://plausible.io/js/script.js
PLAUSIBLE_DATA_DOMAIN=example.com

Contribution

Contributions, Feedback and Feature-Requests are always welcome. To learn more, see the Contributor Guide

Todo/Roadmap

• CI for Tests & Code Quality
• tweak default security
• tweak SEO
• add/finish comments for Blog
• add captchas
• refactor views (queries)
• add docker-compose for production

Acknowledgements

A big thanks to the following great projects:

• django
• django-debug-toolbar
• django-extensions
• django-solo
• django-simple-captcha
• django-environ
• Python-Markdown
• pygments
• esbuild

License

The project is available under GNU GPLv3 Licence.

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