Tornado-start is a template for building a Tornado web application in 5 minutes.

Guillaume Vincent

• python 2.7
• pip 1.3
• virtualenv 1.9

All you have to do is to:

• clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/guillaumevincent/tornado-start.git PROJECT_DIR_NAME

• move into PROJECT_DIR_NAME folder

  cd PROJECT_DIR_NAME/

• delete .git/ folder and license file

  rm -rf .git/ LICENSE

• rename tornado_start folder by YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME

  mv tornado_start/ YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/

• rename APPLICATION_NAME = 'YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME' in settings.py

• rename import in runserver.py

  from tornado_start.handlers import Index

  become

  from YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME.handlers import Index

• mkdir ~/.env/
• virtualenv ~/.env/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/
• . ~/.env/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt

• python runserver.py

Add some test_xxx.py files in test folder and run tests with runtests.py

you can :

• add some python libraries you use in requirements.txt

• configure your deploy/fabfile.py file for deployment in production

• add some alias in your .profile:

  alias venvYOUR_APPLICATION_NAME='. ~/.env/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/bin/activate'

  alias cdYOUR_APPLICATION_NAME='. ~/workspace/YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME/'

• add some LICENSE file

• init git repository

  git init .

Tornado-start is under MIT License. See LICENSE file for more information

1.0.0