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Does Django have an equivalent for Laravel's Homestead?

collinmanderson 9y ago
One thing that's similar is https://github.com/django/django-box https://github.com/django/django-box. It's a Vagrant box primarily intended for developing Django itself. It includes Postgres, MySQL, Memcached, Sphinx, Pillow, selenium, and multiple versions of Python.
dguaraglia 9y ago
Not sure that's really necessary with Django. Lavarel, like most PHP frameworks, require an HTTP server configured with just the right version of PHP, etc. just for development. Django is much simpler: - django-admin startproject MyProject - cd MyProject - python manage.py migrate - python manage.py runserver That should give you a very decent development server without requiring VirtualBox or anything like that. I'd recommend following the official tutorial if you want to give it a spin.
- GoodbyeEarl 9y ago
  I've realized last week these simple steps to run a Django project, but, as I come from Node, I miss npm start.
  - abdelhai 9y ago
    Why not use a Makefile or Invoke (written in Python) to achieve this?. That's what I have been doing.
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    What's the difference?
- wenbert 9y ago
  I really think it needs it. Although "start project" works as it is, I can't be bothered installing MySQL and configuring nginx - that takes a bit of time especially if you miss something. There should be something like this for Django with all the "de facto" tech that a dev might need.
  - brianwawok 9y ago
    You don't use nginx in dev.
    - Walkman 9y ago
      I do. with very similar configuration to production
      - brianwawok 9y ago
        Why? Not that hard to set up but seems overkill.
teilo 9y ago
It's not terribly difficult to roll one's own using Vagrant and Ansible. We maintain a project template for this in a git repository, where playbook resources are shared between development and deployment. Other than paths and which configs in Django are used, this makes development and depolyment nearly identical. It also makes spinning up a new project trivial. Just a couple commands.

One thing that's similar is https://github.com/django/django-box https://github.com/django/django-box. It's a Vagrant box primarily intended for developing Django itself. It includes Postgres, MySQL, Memcached, Sphinx, Pillow, selenium, and multiple versions of Python.

dguaraglia 9y ago

Not sure that's really necessary with Django. Lavarel, like most PHP frameworks, require an HTTP server configured with just the right version of PHP, etc. just for development. Django is much simpler: - django-admin startproject MyProject - cd MyProject - python manage.py migrate - python manage.py runserver That should give you a very decent development server without requiring VirtualBox or anything like that. I'd recommend following the official tutorial if you want to give it a spin.

GoodbyeEarl 9y ago
I've realized last week these simple steps to run a Django project, but, as I come from Node, I miss npm start.
- abdelhai 9y ago
  Why not use a Makefile or Invoke (written in Python) to achieve this?. That's what I have been doing.
- StavrosK 9y ago
  What's the difference?
wenbert 9y ago
I really think it needs it. Although "start project" works as it is, I can't be bothered installing MySQL and configuring nginx - that takes a bit of time especially if you miss something. There should be something like this for Django with all the "de facto" tech that a dev might need.
- brianwawok 9y ago
  You don't use nginx in dev.
  - Walkman 9y ago
    I do. with very similar configuration to production
    - brianwawok 9y ago
      Why? Not that hard to set up but seems overkill.

teilo 9y ago

It's not terribly difficult to roll one's own using Vagrant and Ansible. We maintain a project template for this in a git repository, where playbook resources are shared between development and deployment. Other than paths and which configs in Django are used, this makes development and depolyment nearly identical. It also makes spinning up a new project trivial. Just a couple commands.