Hello Coders,

This article presents a simple way to build a dashboard seed project in Django using Cookiecutter and AppSeed-Shell, an open-source Python package. All resources mentioned in this article can be downloaded from Github under the MIT License. For newcomers, Cookiecutter creates development-ready projects from templates.

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• Django Bootstrap 5 Volt - LIVE deployment
• Cookiecutter Django - source code

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How to generated a Django Dashboard

This simple product can be generated in two ways:

✨1# - AppSeed-Shell package

This library will include more projects once the production-ready level is reached.

Step #1 - Install 🔥appseed-shell🔥

$ # Start the application (development mode)
$ pip3 install appseed-shell

Step #2 - Launch the Python shell and generate the product

$ python
>>> from appseed_shell import generate_django
>>> generate_django()

The project is generated in the current working directory. Once is done, please follow the build instructions provided by the README, start the project and create a new user. Only authenticated users can access the private pages.

✨2# Using Cookiecutter Library

The cookiecutter tool is executed using the public repository of Cookiecutter Django as first argument

Step #1 - Create a virtual environment

$ # Virtualenv modules installation (Unix based systems)
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate

Step #2 - Install Modules

$ # Install modules - SQLite Storage
$ pip3 install cookiecutter

Step #3 - Generate the project from Cookiecutter Django

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/app-generator/cookiecutter-django.git

The project is generated in the current working directory.

Roadmap

The CLI interface will be updated soon with more features:

• list all available products (for now is only one)
• For each product the users can choose:
  • Database engine: SQLite, PostgreSQL, Mysql, or Mongo
  • Add Docker scripts
  • Deployment platform: AWS, Google Cloud, HEROKU

In case anyone find this CLI useful, please drop a message in the comments section.

Links & Resources:

• Open-source Dashboards - Flask, Dashboard and React Apps
• Free React Dashboards - a curated list published here on Dev.