Flask with Django ORM

__init__py

"""
Located under app/
"""

import os

from django.apps import apps
from django.conf import settings

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "settings")
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "settings")
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

models.py

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import JSONField

class BaseModel(models.Model):
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, null=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, null=True)

    def attributes(self):
        return self.__dict__

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

class Hit(BaseModel):
    data = JSONField(null=True)

server.py

"""
Run the following commands (bc. gists don't allow directories)

pip install flask django dj-database-url psycopg2-binary

mkdir -p app/migrations
touch app/migrations/__init__.py
mv models.py app/
mv __init_.py app/
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python server.py

visit http://localhost:5000
See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/settings/#either-configure-or-django-settings-module-is-required for
documentation
"""

from flask import Flask

from app.models import Hit

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    Hit.objects.create(data='{}')
    return str(Hit.objects.count())

if __name__=='__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

settings.py

import dj_database_url

DATABASES = { 'default': dj_database_url.config(default='postgres://localhost/py_example_app') }

INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'app', )

SECRET_KEY = 'REPLACE_ME'

Forked from seanbehan/app.py. (Thank seanbehan for the solution. @seanbehan)
Move initialization code for DjangoORM from main file to app/__init__.py

@ChaosJohn Have you run into any issues of unclosed threads?

https://gist.github.com/seanbehan/168a277a5a23086e76000a59e54fb3d5#gistcomment-3300860