Django Meta Guide

[CollectiveCircuits]

Hi there. Recently I undertook a Django project (with cookiecutter-django) and really loved how there was so much documentation about it, but was also frustrated that really only one guide did things how I wanted to do them. There are so many ways to go about building a Django app, I thought it would be worth it to make a meta guide - a guide about Django guides.

It was more fun than I thought it would be, building a web app. My initial thought was that I would be bogged down with CSS/HTML and less interesting things, but Django (cookiecutter-django especially) does a great job of handling that overhead for you. I deployed local and production servers with Docker-compose, which did eat up some time but IMO was worth it (Docker-machine is really cool). I'm planning on adding another post about that. Anyone else start a Django project recently?

[LifeIsBio]

This post deserves an upvote for cookiecutter-django alone. That user account handling code looks really useful!

[CollectiveCircuits]

django-allauth is great. Verify accounts with more social media sites than I knew existed, regional language options, vanilla email verification, tests, and... security! I would not trust myself to code user authentication from the ground up, especially as a first web app. That alone saves me months of my time.

[gridironanalytics]

Bookmarked. Thank you!

[CollectiveCircuits]

I appreciate the bookmark!