Jelmer

The binaries are there now: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/issues/752#issuecomment-429069885 Just updated my stack to heroku-18 and everything seems to be working fine.

Did you use it before on the Mac M1? Did you find some clues on the web about M1 + Django + reloading? Do you use docker?

If you have an working version then you are in the position of creating a diff between the projects. My hunche is that it is related to docker, so can...

Watchdog is configured through werkzeug in `requirements/local.txt`. Is your previous project using the `stat` reloader?

See [here how werkzeug](https://werkzeug.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/serving/#reloader) decides which reloader is uses and [here how you can override](https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runserver_plus.html?highlight=stat#configuration) the setting in runserver_plus.

Implemented this pull request in an existing project and it works like a charm.

I was lying in my previous comment, I had to change `0.0.0.0` to `django` in `dev.config.js` in order to get the proxy to work. I'm working on Linux.

Updated this pull request to how I use it in production for over an year now. The `pycopg2-binary` requirement is dropped in favor of `pycopg2` so it matches production.

When we merge `base.txt` in to `production.txt` we can extent it in `local.txt`. In human speech it should sound like: we install dev dependencies on top of our production environment....

The final answer for your PostgreSQL backups is [barman](https://www.pgbarman.org/). For daily backups you can use the cron approach you suggest. Setup an cron-job or an standalone container does not make...