Better Local Development

[Buuntu]

Local development is a bit painful and probably a hindrance to adding contributors. This discussion serves to start a conversation around how to improve this.

One initial idea is better unit tests that don't involve recreating the whole project. For one, introducing pytest with fixtures instead of just a bash script at the root level would help. There is also pytest-cookies that is used in cookiecutter-django. This could help with having faster unit tests for local development and leaving the "integration tests" for CI mainly.

There are a couple of other great patterns in the Django cookiecutter project that might be worth building off of.