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Workgroup - Django CMS Project Template Tech Brief

tags: workgroup

Context

  • The dev community seems to be using extensively various project templates (project name - stars):
    • create-react-app - 84.9k
    • vue cli - 27k
    • angular cli - 24k
    • cookiecutter-django - 7.5k
  • Iacopo has been maintaining djangocms-installer for years now, and he's actively working on django-app-enabler that would allow to install django apps through CLI (update of settings.py, urls.py, etc)
  • what. has been investing a lot of effort into maintenence of their project base https://gitlab.com/what-digital/djangocms-template (py3.9, djangocms 3.8, webpack5, vuejs, dockerized)
  • we want to combine the effort and provide the official way to spin up a django cms project with few commands

Propositions

  • what. template has a lot of opinionated non-customizable code, the complexity of which a normal users wouldn't want

Milestones