An entire django app in a single file. Updated from here to use Django trunk. Works with Django 1.11, 2.x, and 3.x.

Clone https://github.com/readevalprint/mini-django

$ docker build . -t mini-django
$ docker run -p 8000:8000 -v `pwd`:/app mini-django

and go to http://localhost:8000/Foo. You can change the code in mini_django.py and the server will automatically reload as soon as you save your changes.

• python3
• django
• uWSGI (optional)
• django rest framework (optional)

1. Clone this repo
2. (optional) Create a virtualenv virtualenv -p python3 venv and activate it using source venv/bin/activate.
3. Install Python dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
4. You can now run the three sample servers using one of the commands below:
   • PYTHONPATH=. django-admin.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --settings=pico_django
   • python mini_django.py runserver
   • python mini_api.py runserver

This started off to see what the absolutely smallest requirements needed to run a Django project. Run the pico_django.py with:

$ PYTHONPATH=. django-admin.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --settings=pico_django

You can then go to http://localhost:8000 to see the running server.

Soon pico needed a little more spice, so it got some template loading and then because I'm lazy I made the new version directly runnable. Run the mini_django.py with

$ python mini_django.py runserver

and go to http://localhost:8000/Foo

Often I need to use django-rest-framework for a simple one-off task, thankfully, mini_django can be adapted quite easily into mini_api.py

$ python mini_api.py runserver

and go to http://localhost:8000

You can also run these Django projects in production-like mode using a WSGI server like uWSGI or gunicorn.

First run pip install uwsgi to install the uWSGI package (requires build tools). You can then start the server using:

$ uwsgi --http :8000 -M --pythonpath=. \
    --env DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mini_django \
    -w "django.core.wsgi:get_wsgi_application()"

Replace mini_django with pico_django or mini_api to run the other projects.

First install gunicorn using pip install gunicorn, then start the server using:

$ gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 \
    --env DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mini_django \
    "django.core.wsgi:get_wsgi_application()"

Replace mini_django with pico_django or mini_api to run the other projects.

Note the above "production" examples are only given as POC to show the code works and not recommended for use in a real production environment. You'd need to think about number of WSGI workers, using NGINX to serve static files, and other such.

As-is. Public Domain. Don't blame me.

Tim Watts (tim@readevalprint.com) @readevalprint

Ivan Savov (ivan@minireference.com) @minireference