The goal of djangobp is providing collection of common codes for django so that developers can skip boilerplate jobs.

Using PIP

pip install djangobp

From source

git clone git@github.com:ecolemo/djangobp.git
cd djangobp
python setup.py install

Scaffold app for quick start.

./manage.py startapp someapp
djangobp-install
./manage.py scaffoldapp someapp

This commands do these:

• Set up controllers for Convention over Configuration and set up urls for this. Routing works like this:
  • /some_resource -> index function in your_app/controllers/some_resource.py
  • /some_resource/resource_id/some_function -> some_function in your_app/controllers/some_resource.py
  • / -> index function in your_app/controllers/init.py
• Register app to INSTALLED_APPS if not done
• Copy commonly used static files.
  • jQuery
  • twitter bootstrap
  • fancybox
  • etc
• Copy sample templates for mako. They are made on top of twitter bootstrap.

After do that, you can see initial page in http://localhost:8000.

Scaffold common pages from model.

./manage.py scaffold app.models.ModelName

It generates these:

• controllers/modelname.py
• templates/modelname
  • index.html
  • edit.html
  • show.html
  • new.html
• templates/common
  • list.html
  • form.html
  • field.html
  • paginator.html

modelname.py has 7 controller methods.

• index
• show
• new
• create
• edit
• update
• delete

modelname.py has ModelNameForm class

• fixture
• httputil - bson encoder for mongodb
• mako render_to_response
• mongomodel

• clean up tests
• remove unused codes
• remove app specific codes

• scaffold model
• install other apps
• pip & virtualenv support
• django-social-auth support
• install JavaScript libraries