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Django crash starter

The Cookiecutter template for the Django Crash Course 3.x tutorial by Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld.

From feldroy·Updated October 24, 2025·View on GitHub·

Powered by [Cookiecutter](https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter), django-crash-starter is the project template for the [Django Crash Course tutorial book](https://www.feldroy.com/products/django-crash-course) by Daniel and Audrey Feldroy. The project is written primarily in Python, first published in 2020. Key topics include: book, cookiecutter-template, django, django-crash-course, django3.

django-crash-starter

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Powered by Cookiecutter, django-crash-starter is the project template
for the Django Crash Course tutorial book by Daniel and Audrey Feldroy.

Django Crash Course: Covers Django 3.0 and Python 3.8

Features

  • For Django 3+
  • Works with Python 3.8+
  • Renders Django projects with 100% starting test coverage
  • Twitter Bootstrap v4
  • 12-Factor based settings via
    django-environ
  • Secure by default. We believe in SSL/TLS.
  • Optimized development and production settings
  • Registration via
    django-allauth
  • Comes with custom user model ready to go
  • Media storage using whitenoise
  • Run tests with unittest or pytest
  • PostgreSQL / SQLite3
  • Default integration with
    pre-commit for
    identifying simple issues before submission to code review

Constraints

  • Very small scope. New feature pull requests will generally be rejected.
  • Only maintained 3rd party libraries are used.
  • Environment variables for configuration

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