[Question] can this be used with asset managers such as django-compressors

[simkimsia]

there's a big list https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/asset-managers/

and I am looking at https://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Can this be used with any of these or it's competing for the same job?

[michael-yin]

@simkimsia

Yes, this can be used with https://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

But I do not recommend you to do it (if you have a project which already use django-compressor, then you can do it)

Try to use frontend tool to do bundle work because django-compressor CAN NOT

1. Help you lint JS, CSS code
2. Auto reload web page if JS or CSS code update.
3. Do code splitting

Thx.

[simkimsia]

Thanks for quick response

What would be your end to end compress/bundle setup for frontend assets of a new django 3.2 project?

No frontend headless architecture. At most use something like htmx and django-components library

[michael-yin]

@simkimsia

Now I use Webpack as bundle solution for my frontend project.

The frontend project usually contains JS, SCSS, CSS, images.

I recommend you to take a look at Alpine.js and https://github.com/AccordBox/django-tailwind-alpine-htmx , actually, I think many Django developers should learn Alpine.js before HTMX

Thx.

[simkimsia]

Oh that's a useful project.

Follow up question

I like to setup a pattern library inside django with components

using https://torchbox.github.io/django-pattern-library/ for the pattern library and https://pypi.org/project/django-components/ for the components.

Would these work with htmx, alpine.js and your webpack boilerplate?

[michael-yin]

@simkimsia

Yes, they can work together.