Dependencies to other python libraries can be declared by pip's requirements.txt.
But is it possible to declare a dependency to a pure js library?
The library is available from github. The files should be downloaded an made available for django static file handling.
Background: setting up new development environments of a custom django application should be easy.
How do you handle this in your development environment?
As pointed out by @guettli you can use fanstatic packages.
E.g. requirements.txt
django
js.jquery
js.bootstrap
js.underscore
# ...
Then in your settings.py you can have:
import js
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
('js', js.__path__[0]),
)
And this is what I have in my base template:
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/jquery/resources/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/underscore/resources/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/bootstrap/resources/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
django-fanstatic
provides a middleware to change the WSGI response. Some more info in this blog post.
pip install only python packages, so if you want to install a Javascript library, you should create a package that contains only the javascript library (declared as additional files).
Not sure if this is really mighty to do this.
Fanstatic already creates a lot of javascript packages (jquery, bootstrap, ...)
You can use the packages without using fanstatic ...
__init__.pyof project top folder or maybe somewhere inmanage.py