Creating A Project

Let’s pretend you want to create a Django project called “wagtail_project”. Rather than using startproject and then editing the results to include your name, email, and various configuration issues that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get cookiecutter to do all the work.

First, get Cookiecutter

$ pip install cookiecutter

Now run it against this repo:

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/chrisdev/wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation.git

You’ll be prompted for some values. Provide them, then a Django project will be created for you

Cloning into 'wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation'...
remote: Counting objects: 5849, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (129/129), done.
remote: Total 5849 (delta 47), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5718
Receiving objects: 100% (5849/5849), 12.43 MiB | 2.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3291/3291), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
project_name [Wagtail Project]:
project_slug [wagtail_project]:
Select version_control_system:
    1 - git
    2 - hg
    Choose from 1, 2 [1]:
Select vcs_host:
    1 - bitbucket.org
    2 - github.com
    Choose from 1, 2 [1]:
your_bitbucket_or_github_user_name [chrisdev]:
author_name [Christopher Clarke]:
email [cclarke@chrisdev.com]:
description [A short description of the project.]:
timezone [UTC]:
production_host_name [wagtail.chrisdev.com]:
version [0.1.0]:
use_letsencrypt [y]:
use_celery [y]:
use_opbeat [n]:
use_django_cachalot [n]:
use_wagalytics_app [n]:
staging_host_name [wagtail-staging.chrisdev.com]:
use_vagrant_staging [True]:
deploy_user_name [django]:
database_user_name [django]:
django_admin_user [my_wagtail_admin]:
Select open_source_license:
    1 - MIT
    2 - BSD
    3 - Apache Software License 2.0
    4 - Not open source
    Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4 [1]:

Enter the project and take a look around:

$ cd wagtail_project/
$ ls

Create a git repo and push it there:

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "first awesome commit"
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:cclarke/my_site.git
$ git push -u origin master