Hi David. Wowser. Good work!
(A cup of tea indeed — I should have replied to the first question better 😝) (Inter alia) You raised five questions. These were the last three: - Should there be better support for front end JS frameworks - Should we have support for webpack - We should support NPM I think the *key point here is not to bind to a particular package*, webpack say. It's already Parcel.js no? — and it'll be something else next week. 🙂 django-compressor, beyond concatenating and compressing files has this neat ability to define `COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS` <https://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/stable/settings/#django.conf.settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS> Here you can map files to any CLI tool (or write a bit of Python if it gets too clever — but TBH I never have to do that). An example from a project: COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = ( ("text/x-tailwind", TAILWIND_COMMAND), # Compile tailwind via PostCSS, with tree-shaking, FTW 💃 # ("text/x-scss", SASS_COMMAND), # Would compile Sass. Oops didn't delete it yet. ("text/x-elm", ELM_MAKE_COMMAND), # Run elm make. ) You can just as easily put in webpack or parcel or babel (or a chain of any or all of them...) It's that plus the offline compress tool that means I've been happy with compressor for a long time — I just never had to move on. (There's a point where you hand off to a frontend specialist but ...) So, particularly given how fast the tools landscape moves here, and how slow Django moves in comparison, some kind of wrapper where you shell out to A.N.Tool — it doesn't have to be JavaScript. It might be make, or pyinvoke — rather than something tied to webpack, as the example, would be a requirement for me. *Not sure* how much of this we need to pull into Django itself? compressor, say, does the whole combine and compress thing well. If we pull that in are we going to do the same for image optimization? Or pull in Whitenoise? Or...? For a user just with contib.staticfiles, what's the very next thing we could do that would make life easier? (i.e. is "I can't run webpack" top of their list?) — What can we do better in core vs a third-party app? — Is that just awareness, which is not a nothing? Note the "not sure" — I think about this a lot, it's a big issue, but I don't have a single answer: I've got what I do, and that works for me, but I see lots of people doing different with success. Kind Regards, Carlton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/4cda64f0-2630-4377-a2d7-a2312a006ae9%40googlegroups.com.
