cookiecutter-django-drf

Powered by Cookiecutter. A boilerplate for jumpstarting RESTful API projects with Django and Django REST Framework.

Introduction

This template generates a Django + DRF project with a sane structure and configuration: split settings, JWT auth, django-filter, a custom exception handler, OpenAPI docs, and tooling managed by mise and uv.

Features

• Django 6.x, Django REST Framework 3.17
• Python 3.12+
• JWT authentication via djangorestframework-simplejwt
• Filtering via django-filter
• OpenAPI schema + Swagger/Redoc via drf-spectacular
• Versioned API under api/v1/
• mise tasks + uv for dependency management
• Dockerfile included

Options

Configurable via cookiecutter.json:

• use_dramatiq (default y) — Dramatiq task queue with Redis
• use_postgres (default n) — PostgreSQL instead of SQLite
• use_whitenoise (default y) — static file serving via WhiteNoise

Usage

cookiecutter https://github.com/cuongnb14/cookiecutter-django-drf.git

See the generated project's README.md for how to install and run it.