# Django Zero

Django Zero helps creating and maintaining fully-featured, modern and maintainable django applications.

It preinstalls dependencies and provides reasonable defaults, to let you focus on features and business value.

Out of the box, you get a Django project with:

• Default settings to start working now.
• Debug Toolbar and Django Extensions.
• Allauth with Jinja2 templates.
• Whitenoise.
• Jinja2 (with django-like filters) and/or Django Template Language (DTL)
• Webpack 4 & Babel for scripts and styles bundling/transpilation (ES6, JSX, SASS).
• Bootstrap 4.1 (easy to remove if you don't want it).
• Build pipeline (various options).

Note that this documentation does not explain the underlying tools, like how to develop using django, we only focus on what is django-zero and it gives links to the other tools.

# Quick start

You need Node.js 8+ with Yarn and a python 3.5+ environment (user should have write permissions).

$ pip install django-zero[dev]

Create and run a project:

$ django-zero create project acme
$ cd acme
$ django-zero install --dev
$ django-zero manage migrate
$ django-zero start

Open http://localhost:8000/, enjoy!

# Table of Content

• Installation

• Getting started

• Guides

  • Command line
  • Development
  • Templating
  • Frontend
  • Users
  • Tests
  • Deployments

• How-to...

• Contribute

# License

Django-Zero is released under Apache License Version 2.0.

Dependencies have their own licenses.

# Status

This is an early preview. We use it on multiple production websites at Makersquad, and we know a few more people using it, but you should be aware that things can be a bit rusty here and there, changes are sometimes necessary, etc.

Use at your own risks, and take the time to understand how it works.