Fuzzy Couscous
A cli tool to bootstrap your django projects and enhance your development experience.
Overview
Fuzzy Couscous is a project that provides a CLI tool based on Django's startproject --template. It aims to simplify the process of bootstrapping Django projects with a modern stack. The project template is inspired by cookiecutter-django but offers a simpler version. The CLI tool also includes additional commands to enhance the Django development experience.
Features
- Django 4+ support
- Python 3.10+ compatibility
- Frontend using htmx with editor support using web-types
- Template fragment with django-template-partials
- Secure production settings with HTTPS only
- Settings management using django-environ
- Login and signup functionality via django-allauth
- Login using email instead of username
- Automatically reload the browser during development with django-browser-reload
- Better development experience with django-fastdev
- Production email integration with Amazon SES via Anymail
- Docker readiness for production deployment
- Optional production cache settings using the CACHE_URL or REDIS_URL environment variables
- Deploying to Caprover with captain-definition
- Performance/error monitoring with Sentry
- Serving static files with Whitenoise
- Django
Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern, providing an extensive set of built-in tools and conventions to streamline the creation of robust and scalable web applications.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
