Guillermo Brachetta GBrachetta

How to Successfully Deploy a Django Project, on the FIRST PUSH

Introduction

Being able to deploy a project is one of the signs of a truly great developer in-the-making. If you master this skill, it will help you breathe easier and perform better in all environments in which you build software products - e.g. hackathons, your hobby projects, the Intensives at Make School, and perhaps even your full-time developer job!

This is the process that has worked for me so far, in pushing all my individual as well as team projects made in Django into production. I used Heroku for all the deployments.

My recommendation is to follow this step right at the beginning of your project! Deployment is one of those steps that everyone struggles with, so get it out of the way early on in development so it makes all future deployments much easier!

Django Tutorials

I've scanned through these, and they all seem to cover the basic features of Django (models, function-based views, forms, templates, CSS, and the admin interface), and use Python 3 and Django 2. My notes indicate what I think differentiates them.

Django Girls tutorial

Written for Django Girls workshops or self-teaching
Widely recommended for beginners, even to Python, web development, and command line
Build a blog
Instructions for Windows, Mac, and Linux (including Python installation)

Notable Django Resources

The following is a list of resources that I have found helpful and want to keep track of for future reference.

Django Deployment to Ubuntu 18.04

In this guide I will go through all the steps to create a VPS, secure it and deploy a Django application. This is a summarized document from this digital ocean doc

Any commands with "$" at the beginning run on your local machine and any "#" run when logged into the server

Create A Digital Ocean Droplet

Use this link and get $10 free. Just select the $5 plan unless this a production app.

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	# Author: Guillermo Brachetta
	# Date Create: 27/04/2021
	# Date Modified: 21/05/2021

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	# Scaffolds React, Next.js, Vite/React, Vite/Vue and Django boilerplates.

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