django-start-tool

Introduction

django-start-tool is a full-featured replacement for django-admin startproject which provides cli for creating the same django project structure.

Usage

A cli arguments are the same as startproject arguments excluding the several changes.

-t --template

Changes:

  • Creating from archive only supports the zip archive.
  • Creating from remote source only supports the GitHub repositories.

-f --files

This parameter is a replacement for --extension and --name parameters.

It takes space-separated glob patterns, like *.env *.rst Procfile etc.


--extra

This parameter takes space-separated key value pairs, which will be available in Jinja2 template from extra object.

$ django-start \
> -t https://github.com/user/repository/archive/main.zip \
> -f '*.env' \
> -e 'db_name=mydb db_password=secret!' \
> config .

.env:

DB_NAME='{{ extra.db_name }}'
DB_PASSWORD='{{ extra.db_password }}'

# Will be rendered to
DB_NAME='mydb'
DB_PASSWORD='secret!'

License

This package is distributed under the MIT license.

GitHub - solarless/django-start-tool at pythonawesome.com
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