A test project for local Django development, original by @MHLut.

This project is not suitable for production purposes!

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See also: A simple approach to running Django Core locally.

Warning: These instructions are crude and not a tutorial: I assume you already know how to use the tools described.

• Technical knowledge of Git, GitHub, Python, Django, etc.
• Django fork per Writing your first contribution for Django.
• gettext.
• just (optional).
• pre-commit (optional; for development only).

1. Pick a directory in which to store the Django core and test projects side-by-side.
2. Clone your fork of Django core; the directory name should be django.
3. Clone the Django local test project.
4. Navigate to the local test project directory.
5. Copy the .env file from .env.example; adjust .env where needed.
6. Reload (source) the environment variables from .env.
7. Create a virtual environment and activate it.
8. Install the dependencies from requirements.txt.

The commands are something like this:

git clone <fork>
git clone git@github.com:MHLut/django-local-test.git
cd django-local-test
cp .env.example .env
source .env
python3 -m venv venv
pip install -r requirements.txt