A presentation that I gave at the django meetup http://www.meetup.com/Django-Cambridge/events/220966071/ with some of my favourite packages.

1. Django packages
Michele Mattioni
@mattions

2. Three main categories
● Serving static files
● Users registration
● Settings splitting

3. Serving Static
● Ready to deploy
● collectstatic
● Launching gunicorn

5. You could read the docs...
● Django does not serve static.
● You have to run collect static
● You need to server them via nginx or apache

6. For an easy solution
● Use WhiteNoise!
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whitenoise

7. Static files: the struggle
Writing time
● SASS
● LESS
● CooffeScript
● Javascript
Serving time
● One file for CSS
● One file for JS

8. Use django-pipeline
https://django-pipeline.readthedocs.org
● Automatically Compiles SASS and LESS in
CSS during debug time
● Minification and concatanation happens at
collectstatic time.

9. Let's go to the User Registration

10. User registration
● Starting a django project with User registration
already embedded?
https://github.com/pinax/pinax-project-account
django-admin.py startproject
--template=https://github.com/pinax/pinax-
project-account/zipball/master
<project_name>

11. Goodies
● Sign In/Log in
● Email with link to activate user
● Password reset
● Account Deletion
● Based on bootstrap3 forms

12. Settings split
settings.py → settings/__init__.py
settings/common.py
settings/dev.py
settings/prod.py
Pick the proper settings settings:
● DJANGO_MODULE_SETTINGS=myproject.settings.
dev
● DJANGO_MODULE_SETTINGS=myproject.settings.
prod

13. How to combine settings
# dev.py
from common import *
DEBUG = True
# prod.py
from common import *
DEBUG = False

14. Conclusion
● django-whitenoise
● django-pipeline
● pinax-account-project
● Split settings into singular file

15. Thank you