Django Quick Start – A Ready-to-Use Starter Project for Django Developers

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Hi everyone

I’m a junior developer, and together with a friend, we’ve been working on a project called Django Quick Start.
The idea behind it is simple — we wanted to have a clean, ready-to-use Django base that developers can copy and build on instead of starting from scratch every time.

It’s not meant to be an educational tutorial, but rather a practical starting point with working examples and a solid project structure.

Here’s what it includes:

  • Three complete apps (Rest, Layer & Generic, JSON App)
  • Comprehensive Django ORM examples
  • Layered architecture (Repository → Service → View)
  • JSON endpoints
  • Authentication and permissions
  • Global dark mode
  • Custom middleware and signals
  • Management commands
  • Data export (PDF/Excel)
  • Email sending example
  • File & image uploads
  • Custom error pages
  • Full documentation

We tried to keep the code simple, consistent, and production-oriented, so it can serve as a good base for future projects or experiments.

GitHub: GitHub - LuisVera03/Django-Quickstart

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Your project is looking a good project, and from some time I’m also thinking to create a start project like you, but you did well, can I do any help?

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You may want to tag/call it a boilerplate :slight_smile:

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This is really great, can I reference to this, while making some guides?

I love how you broke down Models explanations

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Sure! I’m glad you found it helpful. Feel free to reference it in your guides

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Thanks! I’m still learning and improving it step by step.
I really appreciate your offer — any suggestions or ideas are always welcome!

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Good point! “Boilerplate” describes it more accurately.