Introduce Vite configuration generation and propagate the use_vite flag across templates to enable modern frontend tooling.
New Features- Add `create_vite_config` method to generate `vite.config.ts`.
- Propagate `use_vite` metadata to all relevant context dictionaries.
- Include Vite usage in Dockerfile, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, and CI pipelines.
Enhancements
- Update context preparation to embed Vite flag alongside Tailwind and HTMX.
- Refine template documentation to mention Tailwind, HTMX, and Vite integration.
Bug Fixes
- None.
The new metadata enables optional Tailwind CSS and HTMX support in generated Django projects, expanding customization capabilities.
New Features:
- Expose `use_tailwind` and `use_htmx` flags in the pyproject.toml template.
- Inject these flags into GitHub Actions and GitLab CI configuration templates.
Enhancements:
- Centralized handling of Tailwind and HTMX configuration flags across all generated files.
The CI templates were refactored to simplify configuration, remove redundant services, and enable better cache reuse while maintaining compatibility across Python versions.
- New Features
- Consolidated caching logic with `cache-suffix` per Python version.
- Integrated security check directly into the main pipeline.
- Enhancements
- Reduced matrix size to only Python 3.13.
- Replaced manual PostgreSQL setup with Django checks using `DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE` and `SECRET_KEY`.
- Merged duplicate test and security steps across CI platforms.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed missing `python-version` entries that caused undefined matrix behavior.
- Resolved duplicate environment variable definitions in GitLab CI.
Introduce Dockerfile and dockerignore templates to scaffold Docker‑ready Django projects, providing conditional system‑level dependencies for databases and optional Tailwind support, and a comprehensive ignore list for generated projects.
- New Features
- Dockerfile template with conditional apt packages for MySQL or PostgreSQL, and optional Tailwind installation.
- dockerignore template covering Python bytecode, virtual environments, OS artifacts, Django static/media files, and common VCS files.
- Enhancements
- Expand project scaffolding to include ready‑to‑use container configuration files.
Introduce automatic creation of Dockerfile and .dockerignore during project scaffolding, enabling container‑ready setups out of the box.
* New Features
- `create_dockerfile` method renders Dockerfile with configurable context (module name, database type, Tailwind usage).
- `create_dockerignore` method generates a .dockerignore file to exclude unnecessary files from containers.
* Enhancements
- Added both methods to the setup pipeline in `SetupCreator` so they are executed automatically.
- Context values are derived from project metadata, allowing customization per project.
* 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
Introduce command-line interface and supporting modules for project initialization.
- New Features:
- Add `cli.py` with Typer commands `secret` and `app`
- Implement custom exception hierarchy in `utils/exceptions.py`
- Provide secret key generation utilities in `utils/secretkey.py`
- Add name validation logic in `utils/validators.py`
- Initialize package with empty `__init__.py`
- Enhancements:
- Update `pyproject.toml` to include new modules and console script entry points
- Bug Fixes:
- (none)
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