django-singlefile

This is a small library that makes it easier to write single-file Django applications in a similar way to how you'd write Flask applications.

It's still alpha, but hey, it works for small projects.

Example App

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.singlefile import SingleFileApp

app = SingleFileApp()


@app.path("")
def index(request):
    name = request.GET.get("name", "World")
    return HttpResponse(f"Hello, {name}!")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.main()

To run the app, you can just call it from the command line::

python app.py runserver

Or you can pass the app object inside it to a WSGI server as normal!

If you'd like to see a more in-depth example app, take a look at the project I initially wrote this for: andrewgodwin/emf-equipment.

Supported Features

• Templates: Put them in a templates/ directory.
• Static Files: Put them in a static/ directory.
• Class-Based Views: Work fine; use @app.path() on the class itself.
• Forms: Use them as normal.

Unsupported Features

If you want to use these, just go make a normal Django project; trying to fit them into a single file is a bad idea due to their innate complexity.

• Models/Migrations (maybe in future, if I can figure out how nicely)
• Admin
• Authentication

Desired Features

• Project Conversion: An easy way to take a single-file app like this and expand it into a "full" Django project, like startproject would make.