flango - A Django template for using Flask for the frontend, Django for the back ...

Flango Starter Template

An utterly fantastic project starter template for Django 1.10, using Flask as a frontend.

How it works frontend.py contains your Flask application, which is used for your frontend. The django application is routed to /admin . Features Flask for the frontend, using the Django ORM. Production-ready configuration for Static Files, Database Settings, Gunicorn, etc. Enhancements to Django's static file serving functionality via WhiteNoise. Latest python 3.6 runtime environment. How to Use

To use this project, follow these steps:

Create your working environment. Install Django and Flask ( $ pipenv install --no-hashes ) Create a new project using this template Creating Your Project

Using this template to create a new Django app is easy::

$ django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/kennethreitz/flango/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile --name=Pipfile helloworld

(If this doesn't work on windows, replace django-admin.py with django-admin )

You can replace helloworld with your desired project name.

Deployment to Heroku $ git init $ git add -A $ git commit -m "Initial commit" $ heroku create $ git push heroku master $ heroku run python manage.py migrate Using Python 2.7?

Just update runtime.txt to python-2.7.13 (no trailing spaces or newlines!).

License: MIT Further Reading Flask Gunicorn WhiteNoise dj-database-url