Heroku Django Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 1.9.

Features

• Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc.
• Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise

How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

1. Create your working environment.
2. Install Django ($ pip install django)
3. Create a new project using this template

Creating Your Project

Using this template to create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile helloworld

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

See also, a ready-made application, ready to deploy.

Using Python 3?

Just update runtime.txt to python-3.5.2 (no trailing spaces!).

Further Reading

• Gunicorn
• WhiteNoise
• dj-database-url