Django Mogo

Starter kit for Django projects. Installs a ready to use Django environment with utility modules and templates, autogenerating a settings file.

What you get

• A ready to use Django environnement with a complete set of utilities and templates
• A websockets ready solution with Django Instant

Requirements

Virtualenv, pip, git and the necessary packages to install Pillow

Install

Note you will need virtualenv, git and a few libs installed on your system before to install, such as the ones required for Pillow.

git clone https://github.com/synw/django-mogo.git
# copy django-mogo/djangomogo to a dir where you want your virtual env and the django project to be installed
# do not set a virtualenv: Mogo will do it for you
python3 djangomogo

Tweak the autogenerated settings.py to fit your needs.

Install options

The base installer will setup Django with a bunch of modules. The following install options are available

Django only:

python3 djangomogo -django

Do not install and configure Django, just install modules:

python3 djangomogo -modules

Install monitoring tools:

python3 djangomogo -mon

Do not set any virtualenv:

python3 djangomogo -noenv

Install the developement modules: pytest, coverage and the Grunt assets pipeline (npm is required):

python3 djangomogo -dev

Applications list

This quick start kit installs the following Django modules:

Image processing

• pillow: standard image processing lib
• easy-thumbnails: generate thumbnails using cache

Authentication

• django-allauth for authentication with social networks

Text editors

• django-ckeditor: wysywig text editor
• django-codemirror2: code editor

Content management

• django-sfp for pages management
• django-dirtyedit for editing files from the admin
• django-qcf: contact form

Utilities

• ipython : powerfull python shell integrated with Django
• django-compressor: to compress static assets
• django-reversion for version control
• django-mptt: utility for working with trees
• django-braces: usefull mixins
• django-extensions : usefull tools
• django-mqueue: for logging app events
• django-filebrowser-no-grappelli: files management

Websockets (optional)

• Centrifugo: the websockets server
• django-instant: Centrifugo <-> Django layer
• django-autoreloader for hot reload during development

Monitoring (optional)

• django-watchtower: to collect metrics and events

Developement (optional)

• django-debug-toolbar for apps debug
• pytest-django: test suite
• pytest-cov: coverage for pytest
• coverage: utility for test coverage reporting
• django-autofixture: for generating test data

Templates

Batteries are included with a base template set using Bulma for the css

What is that name?

In west african french slang a mogo is a man (and a go is a girl). So it means "django guy"