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Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 3 stories, 24 comments · first 2015-03-25 · latest 2025-12-04

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  1. …setups if you want, and other stuff rather than have to jiggle with "Django infra" myself [^1]: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
    comment by personjerry · 2025-12-04 · in Django 6
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    Cookiecutter Django: framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects
    story by indigodaddy · 2025-09-13 · 1 comment
  3. I found that this django setup was an excellent starting point: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
    comment by Fuzzwah · 2024-09-10 · in SaaSavant – SaaS Boilerplate
  4. …and lighter weight than what I normally use for a starter project, which is cookiecutter-django: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django It seems to include most everything that djangox does, and a little bit more, and with…
    comment by belthesar · 2023-01-26 · in Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
  5. …now and just want to get hello-world in your browser right away, there's always cookiecutters (e.g. https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django ). Again, no one obvious right way (ha!) but plenty of valid options! Not sure if…
    comment by zbentley · 2022-11-12 · in Ask HN: Programming without a build system?
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    Cookiecutter a framework for jumpstarting Django projects quickly
    story by kristianp · 2022-03-16 · 0 comments
  7. …to be production ready quick. May be better suited for those experienced with django though. [0] https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
    comment by newrotik · 2022-02-13 · in Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?
  8. Try creating a Django project using the Cookie Cutter Django: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django/ Select yes when asked if you want "custom_bootstrap_compilation" That will configure a gulp task runner that is capable of…
    comment by infamia · 2021-11-23 · in Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
  9. https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
    comment by nsomaru · 2021-09-17 · in Building apps in minutes, not months
  10. …with containers for django, celery, postgres, redis, and traefik as a load balancer: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%... Cookiecutter-django also includes a Procfile. With k8s, you have an ingress (~load…
    comment by westurner · 2020-06-08 · in Ask HN: How do you deploy a Django app in 2020?
  11. …project initialization. It even comes with live reloading. The pipeline is based on these files: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%... https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/blob/master/%... *…
    comment by tkainrad · 2020-04-15 · in Using VueJS Alongside Django
  12. …are looking for a "boilerplate" than. There are some e.g. for Django I think. Have a look at this: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django And stripe and google analytics are made to integrate easily, that shouldn't need a…
    comment by anotheryou · 2020-01-28 · in Ask HN: Do you use a SaaS starter-kit?
  13. …framework[1]. I don't think there was a single issue with it the whole time we used it. [1] https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
    comment by LifeIsBio · 2019-08-29 · in Ask HN: How do you handle logging?
  14. My favorite opinionated boilerplate for new Django projects: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/ From the author of the great Two Scoops of Django series. https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django... Two…
    comment by adpirz · 2018-06-28 · in Django Newbie Mistakes
  15. …For any new Django engineers reading this, I would point you towards https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django for the best / most complete structure.
    comment by djstein · 2018-06-27 · in How to Structure Django Projects
  16. I use Django cookie-cutter( https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django ) to quickly create a production-ready Django project with docker enabled. For Frontend, I use normal Django templates with intercoolerJS(…
    comment by abhi21284 · 2018-06-03 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
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    Ask HN: Rails resources similar to Django's “Two Scoops” and cookiecutter-django?
    story by methochris · 2017-11-26 · 1 comment
  18. …nice things that come with it and you can get a project setup in a flash using CookieCutter-Django: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
    comment by ryanom · 2017-05-22 · in Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use?
  19. For a similar experience in Django, one should better start with https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django instead of the default generated project.
    comment by utku_karatas2 · 2017-04-04 · in Django 1.11 Released
  20. …a branch, commits the changes and sends you a pull request on your repo. This it how it looks like: https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/pull/1065
    comment by jayfk · 2017-03-02 · in Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects
  21. …baked in. Also, I should mention this is created my the same guy who wrote "Two Scoops of Django". https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
    comment by sheraz · 2016-12-26 · in Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
  22. With something like cookiecutter-django a registration site takes about 5 minutes. https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django
    comment by abgawrv · 2016-10-03 · in Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
  23. https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django is fairly similar in terms of providing a good jump start for django development.
    comment by mattwinslow · 2016-07-21 · in How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
  24. …to be Python, Postgres, and constantly hunting tools that make me an even lazier developer. [1] - https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django [2] - https://getsentry.com [3] - https://pubnub.com
    comment by sheraz · 2016-05-31 · in Ask HN: If you started making a web app today which tool would you choose?
  25. Django. Specifically, I use pydanny's django cookiecutter ( https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django ) which gives me pretty much everything I need including user signup, login, and social auth. Skin with your templates and off you…
    comment by sheraz · 2016-04-22 · in Ask HN: Which framework for a CRUD app in 2016?
  26. …which seems to offer email login methods, from what I see in a cursory look at the docs [2]. [0] - https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django [1] - https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth [2] - http://django-allauth.readthedocs.org/e…
    comment by japhyr · 2015-12-02 · in Django 1.9 Released
  27. Try https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django for Django apps
    comment by mjhea0 · 2015-03-25 · in Prelang for Python