python-app-template

A template with a reasonable basic setup, including:

• black (formatting)
• flake8 (linting)
• mypy (type checking)
• isort (import sorting)
• pre-commit (check/fix the things above and more on each commit)
• poetry (dependency and venv management)
• pytest (testing)
• tox (test against multiple Python versions even locally)
• pytest-cov (compute coverage, uploaded to codecov.io)
• pdoc3 (generate documentation, deployed to Github Pages)

Inspired by Hypermodern Python and blog posts like this. You can look there for more tools and other choices.

• If you are building a CLI app, consider using Typer
• If you are building a web app, consider using FastAPI

Setup

• Change the package name and path to the repository everywhere
• configure Github Pages in the settings
• and set tokens in the CI if the repository is not public

Development

This project uses Poetry for dependency management.

Clone this repository and run poetry install.

Run pre-commit install to enable pre-commit hooks for linting and sanity checks.

To locally generate documentation, run pdoc -o docs python_app_template.

To locally run tests and get coverage information, use pytest --cov.

To run the tests with different Python versions, run tox. For that, you should install the Python versions in the .python-version file. You can use pyenv to do that and switch between them as you please.