django_frontend.md

Django is app-based

projects vs. apps

• templates directory in apps
• static directory in apps

python manage.py collectstatic

Django, by default on production, does not serve static assets

• that's the webserver's job

Views

• views handle logic
• class-based views
  • you can define methods to handle differend HTTP methods

Templates

• include vs. extend
• blocks
• very limited logic, by design

URLs

• design your URLs
  • very flexible, but can get messy
• use the url() pattern with the name= kwarg.
• reference URLs by name in templates

Resources

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/http/urls/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/http/views/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/#supporting-other-http-methods
• https://github.com/rca/django-resourceful
• http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart/
  • COMPRESS_ENABLED=False
• http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html
• http://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html