djangosnippets.org

This code is used to power the snippet sharing site, djangosnippets.org_

Development Setup

Prerequisites

Python version 3.12
PostgreSQL
uv_ - An extremely fast Python package and project manager

Installation

Basic Installation


1. Clone the repo:

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      https://github.com/django/djangosnippets.org.git

2. Install uv if you haven't already:

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      # macOS
      curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
      # Windows
      powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

3. Connect to PostgreSQL

   Connect in Linux:

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      psql -U $(whoami) -d postgres

   Connect in Windows:

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      psql -U postgres

4. Create a PostgreSQL database and role:

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      postgres=# CREATE DATABASE djangosnippets;
      postgres=# CREATE USER djangosnippets WITH SUPERUSER PASSWORD 'djangosnippets';
      postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE djangosnippets TO djangosnippets;

   Exit psql shell:

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      postgres=# exit

5. Install dependencies:

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      uv sync --extra dev

6. Copy `.env.template.local` file, rename to `.env` and configure variables for your local postgres database.

   Copy in Linux:

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      cp .env.template.local .env

   Copy in Windows:

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      copy .env.template.local .env

7. Run migrations and create superuser:

   Migrate:

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      uv run python manage.py migrate

   Create superuser:

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      uv run python manage.py createsuperuser

   Optionally load data:

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      uv run python manage.py loaddata fixtures/cab.json

8. Install tailwind (npm is required):

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      uv run python manage.py tailwind install

9. Run server locally:

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      uv run python manage.py runserver_plus

10. Run tailwind in another terminal locally:

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      uv run python manage.py tailwind start

With Docker

Using Docker <https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/>_ allows you to set up the development environment more quickly if Docker is installed 🐳

Build the Docker images:

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docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml build
Start the containers:

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docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml up -d
Go to: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and enjoy 🙌

Docker

You need to copy .env.example to .env and configure to your needs. The example is fine to start with development.

You may wish to use docker locally for production dependency testing and development; here are the setup instructions::

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml build
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml up -d

-d denotes running docker in a detached state::

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml run web python manage.py migrate
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml run web python manage.py createsuperuser
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml run web python manage.py loaddata fixtures/cab.json
$ npm run build
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yml run web python manage.py collectstatic

The docker setup is running as close as possible to the production setup in Heroku:

Postgres 12.3 Gunicorn Redis

To run our tests with docker::

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.yml run web python manage.py test --settings=djangosnippets.settings.testing

Test

To run tests::

$ python manage.py test --settings=djangosnippets.settings.testing

Styling Contributor?

DjangoSnippets uses the Foundation_ framework as the core of its visual style. To get this working on your local machine you need compass_ and bower_ to compile your stylesheets. Please never modify the generated .css files directly. Use the .scss ones instead.

To keep the setup path as short as possible, run the following commands in your terminal::

$ cd djangosnippets/static
$ bower install && compass watch

If you don't have either of these two installed, you can find detailed instructions on their respective websites.

Please make sure that you commit only a compressed version of the CSS file as this is what will be deployed. (In order to do that the default configuration inside djangosnippets/static/config.rb is output_style = :compressed)

Production Setup

The production setup is currently tailored to Heroku and, therefore, mostly automatic. The difference between these two setups is configured in the djangosnippets.settings.production <./djangosnippets/settings/production.py>_ module and the requirements.txt <./requirements.txt>_ file.

.. _bower: http://bower.io/ .. _compass: http://rubygems.org/gems/compass/ .. _foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com/ .. _djangosnippets.org: https://djangosnippets.org/ .. _uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/ .. _document: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/ .. _PostgreSQL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

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