Zmei generator is started as simple scaffolding tool for Django. Now it is powerfull code generator that automate routine work and gently integrates generated sources into your custom code.
- Quick create configured Django project
- Compact dsl for generating Django-views and models
- Pycharm plugin for syntax highlighting
- Automatic django-admin generation including complex ones: polymorphic, inlines, translatable
- Powerful CRUD generator
- React application generator (TODO: not documented) + channels websocket integration
- Flutter application generator (TODO: not documented)
- Automatic generation of REST endpoints
- Flexible plugin system
Generator is written in python. Install with pip python packaging tool (preferably in virtual environment):
pip install zmei-cli
Create file "main.col" with page declaration:
[index: /]
@markdown {
# Hello, world!
}
And run zmei command:
zmei gen up
In less than a minute you will get all dependency installed and django application with hello world page on http://127.0.0.1:8000/
See documentation.
Ask on https://www.reddit.com/r/zmei/ if you need any help, or fill an issue.
Contributions are highly appreciated. Project is huge and it is hard to develop it alone.
You can contribute by:
- Improve documentation
- Test, write bug reports, propose features
- Add new features
- Fix bugs, improve code base, add your features
- Write articles, blog-posts with your experience using the generator
- Write plugins, improve existing ones
- Alex Rudakov @ribozz
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 rumjantsevv 🐛 📓 |  Vladimir Bezuglõi 🐛 💻 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
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Source code is distributed under GNU General Public License v3.0 licence. Full licence text is available in LICENSE file.
In-short about GPLv3:
- All software that use Zmei-generator as it's part MUST be open-sourced as well: plugins, other generators based on it, etc.
- You CAN NOT take Zmei-generator and sell it as a paid service without open-sourcing it
- But, you CAN use Zmei generator as a tool to write any software including private closed source software
Software is free for non-commercial use. For commercial use ask for dual-licensing options.