Django 2.0 Heroku

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Dan Loewenherz edited this page Aug 18, 2018 · 2 revisions

Features

Libraries

Includes a requirements.txt with libraries that promote Django best practices, such as:

Django storages, for support with many file storage backends.
Django Devserver, for a great replacement to the built in Django runserver command.
Django Debug Toolbar, for an easy to use toolbar with fantastic profiling information.
Statictastic, for an easy way to sync static media to your storage backends.

Heroku Setup

Create the project on Heroku or connect it to an existing project.
```
heroku git:remote -a HEROKU-PROJECT-NAME
```
Or:
```
heroku create
```
Add the PostgreSQL addon.
```
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql
```
Specify that the project uses the Python buildpack.
```
heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python
```

Set the environment variables.

heroku config:set APP_ENVIRONMENT=production
heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
heroku config:set AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=XXX
heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

Create the base User migration.
```
./manage.py makemigrations app
```

Get started

To start a new Django project called project_name, run the following.

django-admin.py startproject -e md,ngx,ini,Procfile --template=https://github.com/lionheart/django-template/archive/django-2.0-heroku.zip project_name