Django Stars Backend Skeleton

Django project template based on cookiecutter.

Project preconfigured with best practices and tools to work from the box with minimal configuration and setup. Fast start achieved by using docker and docker compose.

What's included

• Settings via environment variables with django-environ.
• Celery configuration.
• Django REST Framework configuration + Swagger with drf-spectacular.
• Typical user CRUD APIs.
• Docker support using docker-compose configuration for local development (incl. Postgres, Redis & MailPit for testing emails).
• Requirements management with uv.
• pytest configuration.
• Code formatting with Ruff.
• Checking code with Ruff - which includes flake8, isort, bandit, pylint etc.
• Pre-commit hook for running test & linters on each commit.
• Integration with Sentry.

How to use

Prerequisites

Installed cookiecutter and docker

Set up project

Step into directory you want to create project and generate project with cookiecutter:

cd /path/to/directory
cookiecutter https://github.com/django-stars/backend-skeleton

Answer the questions in wizard.

Steps after project setup

Step into directory of your project.

Copy .env file from example file:

cp ./api/.env.example ./api/.env

Run application:

make compose-up

We are using docker for running the app, so you don't have to keep your python env locally.