This script validates template consistency and metadata usage, ensuring generated configurations are correct across all use‑case combinations. It provides automated checks to catch missing variable replacements, unused metadata fields, and mis‑configured requirements.
- New Features
- Introduce `check_template_consistency` to detect unreplaced `[[` variables in all templates.
- Implement `check_metadata_usage` to verify that all metadata flags are correctly applied.
- Iterate through all feature combinations to test requirements and settings rendering.
- Enhancements - Added structured console output sections for each generated example file.
- Integrated explicit error reporting for template rendering failures.
- Bug Fixes
- (none)
Add `use_docker` and `use_vite` boolean fields to `ProjectMetadata` and include them in the metadata dictionary serialization.
- New feature: expose Docker and Vite enable flags.
- Enhancement: extend metadata output to reflect the new configuration options.
This release extends the UI to let users opt‑in to Docker support and Vite integration when generating a Django project.
- New Features
- Add `use_docker` and `use_vite` fields to `StructureOptions`
- Implement `get_docker_choice` method with a confirmation prompt- Enhancements
- Propagate Docker and Vite selections through metadata and CLI prompts - Include Dockerfile and docker‑compose when Docker is enabled
- Bug Fixes - (none)
The new templates provide a ready‑to‑use Docker environment for Django projects, including system dependencies, container orchestration, and build‑context exclusions.
New Features
- Dockerfile template with Python 3.13‑slim base, environment variables, apt dependencies, and Gunicorn command.
- docker-compose.yml template with web service and conditional database services (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
- .dockerignore template to exclude irrelevant files and speed up Docker builds.
Enhancements
- Updated .gitignore with Docker‑specific entries to keep repositories clean.
No Bug Fixes.
Adds creation of Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and .dockerignore when `use_docker` metadata is true, integrates the step into the setup pipeline, and registers the task in `SetupCreator`. Enables out‑of‑the‑box Docker support for generated Django projects.
New Features
- Generate Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and .dockerignore from templates upon project creation.
- Register Docker file creation step in the setup pipeline and execute only when `use_docker=True`.
- Extend metadata config with `use_docker` flag to control Docker file inclusion.
Enhancements
- Streamline Docker file generation through templated rendering, ensuring a consistent project structure.
Bug Fixes
- None.
Introduce Tailwind and HTMX support with conditional placeholders and correct static/media URL prefixes.
- New Features
- Add django_tailwind_cli and django_htmx when enabled
- Add HtmxMiddleware to middleware stack
- Pin Tailwind CLI version and set distribution CSS path in production
- Configure Tailwind theme and daisyui settings
- Enhancements
- Prefix STATIC_URL and MEDIA_URL with '/' for proper URL handling
- Update requirements templates with new optional dependencies
- Expand pyproject.toml metadata and dependency groups
- Bug Fixes
- Fix missing leading slash in STATIC_URL and MEDIA_URL
- Pin Tailwind CLI version to avoid unexpected upgrades
**New Features**
- Add `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` boolean fields to `ProjectMetadata` with defaults set to `False`.
- Update `ProjectMetadata.__init__` mapping to include these new attributes, ensuring they are persisted in project metadata.
Add configurable `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` flags to the Django starter project context, allowing users to optionally include Tailwind CSS and HTMX JavaScript libraries.
- New Features:
- Introduce `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` metadata flags in `base_settings_context`.
- Propagate these flags to `requirements.txt`, generated `settings.py`, and CI configuration templates.
- Enhancements:
- Ensure the flags are consistently available across all templated files.
- Bug Fixes: None.
New Features:
- Add `use_tailwind` metadata option (default False) for Tailwind CSS support.
- Add `use_htmx` metadata option (default False) for HTMX support.
Enhancements:
- Extend DjangoHelper context to include the new flags in generated settings.
- New Features:
- Add `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` fields to `StructureOptions` and expose confirmation prompts via `get_tailwind_choice` and `get_htmx_choice`.
- Persist these selections in the generated metadata and pass them through the initialization flow.
- Enhancements:
- Include `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` values when constructing the metadata dictionary.
- Display Tailwind CSS and HTMX choices in the final confirmation output.
- Bug Fixes: none
* New Features
* Replace the singular `STATICFILES_STORAGE` assignment with a `STORAGES` dictionary defining `default` and `staticfiles` backends.
* Enhancements
* Add `DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD` setting for consistency with recent Django recommendations.
* Make storage backend definitions clearer and more extensible.
* Bug Fixes
* None.
Why: enable support for Python 3.13.
New Features
- Updated pyproject.toml template to target Python 3.13, allowing builds with newer interpreters.
Enhancements
- Improves compatibility with upcoming Python releases.
- New Features: Automatically include app URLs in project urls.py and api/v1/urls.py; Generate full AppConfig paths using a unified utility
- Enhancements: Improved nested-app detection and path resolution across predefined, standard, single, and unified structures; Refined context transformation for base settings; Updated URL template rendering
- Bug Fixes: Fixed duplicate include‑statement handling; Corrected URL update error paths and exception safety
- Add conditional logic to `_add_to_api_v1_urls` when `structure_type` is `"predefined"`
- Include `module_name` in contexts for `justfile` and `Procfile` templates
- Clarify `module_name` usage in `.env.sample` generation comment
New Features
- Replace double‑curly placeholder syntax with direct variable usage in justfile and procfile templates.
Enhancements
- Change psycopg2-binary to psycopg[binary] in pyproject.toml template.
- Update ruff.isort known‑first‑party from project_name to module_name.
- Adjust server commands to reference module_name placeholder and use variable syntax directly.
Bug Fixes- Fix placeholder expansion in dev‑server, makemigrations, install, and remove commands.
- Correct requirements generation script to handle missing pyproject.toml gracefully.
- Resolve incorrect variable substitution in gunicorn bind commands and worker count references.
Why: expose ability to toggle usage of DATABASE_URL in generated configuration.
New Features
- Add configurable `use_database_url` parameter to control inclusion of DATABASE_URL in generated pyproject.toml.
Enhancements
- Increase flexibility of database configuration for generated Django projects.
Bug Fixes
- (none)
Add conditional import of `dj_database_url` and a directive comment for `use_database_url` to enable automatic database configuration when the `use_database_url` flag is set, improving flexibility of the production settings template.
- New Features: Introduce support for reading `DATABASE_URL` to configure Django databases automatically.
- Enhancements: Conditional import improves template modularity and reduces unnecessary dependencies.
- Bug Fixes: None.
New Features
- Add optional `dj-database-url` dependency for database URL support.
Enhancements
- Replace `{{ project_name }}` with `[[ project_name ]]` in the env template for clearer interpolation.
Bug Fixes
- None
- Switch trigger to `pull_request_target` with `opened`, `synchronize`, and `reopened` events for safer automation
- Add explicit check that the actor is `dependabot[bot]` to prevent unintended executions
- Use `GITHUB_TOKEN` instead of a dedicated secret and enable `use-github-auto-merge` for automatic merging of minor updates
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