- Registration via [django-allauth](https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth)
- Comes with custom user model ready to go
- Optional basic ASGI setup for Websockets
- Optional custom static build using Gulp or Webpack
- Send emails via [Anymail](https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail) (using [Mailgun](http://www.mailgun.com/) by default or Amazon SES if AWS is selected cloud provider, but switchable)
- Media storage using Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage or nginx
- Docker support using [docker-compose](https://github.com/docker/compose) for development and production (using [Traefik](https://traefik.io/) with [LetsEncrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) support)
- [Procfile](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile) for deploying to Heroku
- Instructions for deploying to [PythonAnywhere](https://www.pythonanywhere.com/)
- Run tests with unittest or pytest
- Customizable PostgreSQL version
- Default integration with [pre-commit](https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit) for identifying simple issues before submission to code review
This project is an open source project run by volunteers. You can sponsor us via [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/cookiecutter-django) or individually via GitHub Sponsors:
- Daniel Roy Greenfeld, Project Lead ([GitHub](https://github.com/pydanny), [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/danielroygreenfeld)): expertise in Django and AWS ELB.
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## Usage
Let's pretend you want to create a Django project called "redditclone". Rather than using `startproject`
and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get [cookiecutter](https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter) to do all the work.
Answer the prompts with your own desired [options](http://cookiecutter-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/1-getting-started/project-generation-options.html). For example:
- Have questions? **Before you ask questions anywhere else**, please post your question on [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cookiecutter-django) under the _cookiecutter-django_ tag. We check there periodically for questions.
- If you think you found a bug or want to request a feature, please open an [issue](https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django/issues).
- For anything else, you can chat with us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/uFXweDQc5a).
You may notice that some elements of this project do not exactly match what we describe in chapter 3. The reason for that is this project, amongst other things, serves as a test bed for trying out new ideas and concepts. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, but the end result is that it won't necessarily match precisely what is described in the book I co-authored.
If you are using [PyUp](https://pyup.io) to keep your dependencies updated and secure, use the code _cookiecutter_ during checkout to get 15% off every month.
Scattered throughout the Python and HTML of this project are places marked with "your stuff". This is where third-party libraries are to be integrated with your project.
- [Why cookiecutter-django is Essential for Your Next Django Project](https://medium.com/@millsks/why-cookiecutter-django-is-essential-for-your-next-django-project-7d3c00cdce51) - Aug. 4, 2024
- [How to Make Your Own Django Cookiecutter Template!](https://medium.com/@FatemeFouladkar/how-to-make-your-own-django-cookiecutter-template-a753d4cbb8c2) - Aug. 10, 2023
- [Cookiecutter Django With Amazon RDS](https://haseeburrehman.com/posts/cookiecutter-django-with-amazon-rds/) - Apr, 2, 2021
- [Complete Walkthrough: Blue/Green Deployment to AWS ECS using GitHub actions](https://github.com/Andrew-Chen-Wang/cookiecutter-django-ecs-github) - June 10, 2020
- [Using cookiecutter-django with Google Cloud Storage](https://ahhda.github.io/cloud/gce/django/2019/03/12/using-django-cookiecutter-cloud-storage.html) - Mar. 12, 2019
- [cookiecutter-django with Nginx, Route 53 and ELB](https://msaizar.com/blog/cookiecutter-django-nginx-route-53-and-elb/) - Feb. 12, 2018
- [cookiecutter-django and Amazon RDS](https://msaizar.com/blog/cookiecutter-django-and-amazon-rds/) - Feb. 7, 2018
- [Using Cookiecutter to Jumpstart a Django Project on Windows with PyCharm](https://joshuahunter.com/posts/using-cookiecutter-to-jumpstart-a-django-project-on-windows-with-pycharm/) - May 19, 2017
- [Exploring with Cookiecutter](http://www.snowboardingcoder.com/django/2016/12/03/exploring-with-cookiecutter/) - Dec. 3, 2016
- [Introduction to Cookiecutter-Django](http://krzysztofzuraw.com/blog/2016/django-cookiecutter.html) - Feb. 19, 2016
- [Django and GitLab - Running Continuous Integration and tests with your FREE account](http://dezoito.github.io/2016/05/11/django-gitlab-continuous-integration-phantomjs.html) - May. 11, 2016
- [Development and Deployment of Cookiecutter-Django on Fedora](https://realpython.com/blog/python/development-and-deployment-of-cookiecutter-django-on-fedora/) - Jan. 18, 2016
- [Development and Deployment of Cookiecutter-Django via Docker](https://realpython.com/blog/python/development-and-deployment-of-cookiecutter-django-via-docker/) - Dec. 29, 2015
- [How to create a Django Application using Cookiecutter and Django 1.8](https://www.swapps.io/blog/how-to-create-a-django-application-using-cookiecutter-and-django-1-8/) - Sept. 12, 2015
