django-vite
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Integration of ViteJS in a Django project.
pip install django-vite
Add django_vite to your INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py
(before your apps that are using it).
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'django_vite',
...
]
Follow instructions on https://vitejs.dev/guide/. And mostly the SSR part.
Then in your ViteJS config file :
base options the same as your STATIC_URL Django setting.build.outDir path to where you want the assets to compiled.build.manifest options to manifest.json.index.html that
ViteJS can use to determine which files to compile. You need to tell it
directly in build.rollupOptions.input.export default defineConfig({
...
base: "/static/",
build: {
...
manifest: "manifest.json",
outDir: resolve("./assets"),
rollupOptions: {
input: {
<unique key>: '<path to your asset>'
}
}
}
})
As recommended on Vite's backend integration guide, your assets should include the modulepreload polyfill.
// Add this at the beginning of your app entry.
import 'vite/modulepreload-polyfill';
Define a default DJANGO_VITE configuration in your settings.py.
DJANGO_VITE = {
"default": {
"dev_mode": True
}
}
Or if you prefer to use the legacy module-level settings, you can use:
DJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODE = True
Be sure that the build.outDir from vite.config.js is included in STATICFILES_DIRS.
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / "assets"
]
The dev_mode/DJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODE boolean defines if you want to include assets in development mode or production mode.
DEBUG setting in
Django. But you can do what is good for your needs.Include this in your base HTML template file.
{% load django_vite %}
Then in your <head> element add this :
{% vite_hmr_client %}
<script> tag to include the ViteJS HMR client.DJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODE is true,
otherwise this will do nothing.Then add this tag (in your <head> element too) to load your scripts :
{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' %}
This will add a <script> tag including your JS/TS script :
[type=module]).import statements.manifest.json file
generated by ViteJS and import all CSS files dependent of this script
(before importing the script).root key inside your ViteJS config file.manifest.json file
generated by ViteJS./ at the beginning
(follow your manifest.json file).{% vite_asset_url '<path to your asset>' %}
This will generate only the URL to an asset with no tag surrounding it. Warning, this does not generate URLs for dependant assets of this one like the previous tag.
{% vite_react_refresh %}
If you're using React, this will generate the Javascript <script/> needed to support React HMR.
{% vite_react_refresh nonce="{{ request.csp_nonce }}" %}
Any kwargs passed to vite_react_refresh will be added to its generated <script/> tag. For example, if your site is configured with a Content Security Policy using django-csp you'll want to add this value for nonce.
By default, all script tags are generated with a type="module" and crossorigin="" attributes just like ViteJS do by default if you are building a single-page app.
You can override this behavior by adding or overriding this attributes like so :
{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' foo="bar" hello="world" data_turbo_track="reload" %}
This line will add foo="bar", hello="world", and data-turbo-track="reload" attributes.
You can also use context variables to fill attributes values :
{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' foo=request.GET.bar %}
If you want to overrides default attributes just add them like new attributes :
{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' crossorigin="anonymous" %}
Although it's recommended to keep the default type="module" attribute as ViteJS build scripts as ES6 modules.
By default, django-vite will try to load a local manifest.json.
If you want django-vite to fetch the manifest from a non-standard source like S3, you can subclass DjangoViteAppClient and override its ManifestClient. Below is a minimal example:
# myapp/django_vite_s3.py
import json
import boto3
from django_vite.core.asset_loader import ManifestClient, DjangoViteAppClient
class S3ManifestClient(ManifestClient):
def load_manifest(self):
s3 = boto3.client("s3")
res = s3.get_object(Bucket='django-vite-public-example', Key='manifest.json')
manifest_content = res["Body"].read()
return json.loads(manifest_content)
class S3DjangoViteAppClient(DjangoViteAppClient):
ManifestClient = S3ManifestClient
Then configure your app to use your custom S3DjangoViteAppClient:
# settings.py
from django_vite.core.asset_loader import DjangoViteConfig
DJANGO_VITE = {
"default": DjangoViteConfig(
dev_mode=False,
app_client_class="myapp.django_vite_s3.S3DjangoViteAppClient",
...
)
}
If your "django.contrib.staticfiles" is configured to use S3, then your assets should load properly without needing further configuration.
Since this feature support is a new work-in-progress, please share with the community any configurations that have worked well for you!
If you find yourself needing greater control over how static asset urls are rendered, you can modify DjangoViteAppClient.get_production_server_url:
# myapp/django_vite_s3.py
import json
import boto3
from django_vite.core.asset_loader import ManifestClient, DjangoViteAppClient
class S3ManifestClient(ManifestClient):
def load_manifest(self):
s3 = boto3.client("s3")
res = s3.get_object(Bucket='django-vite-public-example', Key='manifest.json')
manifest_content = res["Body"].read()
return json.loads(manifest_content)
class S3DjangoViteAppClient(DjangoViteAppClient):
ManifestClient = S3ManifestClient
def get_production_server_url(self, path: str) -> str:
# Make additional charge here as needed
...
If you want to consider legacy browsers that don't support ES6 modules loading
you may use @vitejs/plugin-legacy.
Django Vite supports this plugin. You must add stuff in complement of other script imports in the <head> tag.
Just before your <body> closing tag add this :
{% vite_legacy_polyfills %}
This tag will do nothing in development, but in production it will loads the polyfills generated by ViteJS.
And so next to this tag you need to add another import to all the scripts you have in the head but the 'legacy' version generated by ViteJS like so :
{% vite_legacy_asset '<path to your asset>' %}
Like the previous tag, this will do nothing in development but in production,
Django Vite will add a script tag with a nomodule attribute for legacy browsers.
The path to your asset must contain de pattern -legacy in the file name (ex : main-legacy.js).
This tag accepts overriding and adding custom attributes like the default vite_asset tag.
If you would like to use django-vite with multiple vite configurations you can specify them in your settings.
DJANGO_VITE = {
"default": {
"dev_mode": True,
},
"external_app_1": {
...
},
"external_app_2": {
...
}
}
Specify the app in each django-tag tag that you use in your templates. If no app is provided, it will default to using the "default" app.
{% vite_asset '<path to your asset>' %}
{% vite_asset '<path to another asset>' app="external_app_1" %}
{% vite_asset '<path to a third asset>' app="external_app_2" %}
You can see an example project here.
You can redefine these values for each app config in DJANGO_VITE in settings.py.
boolFalseDJANGO_VITE_DEV_MODEIndicates whether to serve assets via the ViteJS development server or from compiled production assets.
Read more: Dev Mode
str"http"DJANGO_VITE_DEV_SERVER_PROTOCOLThe protocol used by the ViteJS webserver.
str"localhost"DJANGO_VITE_DEV_SERVER_HOSTThe server.host in vite.config.js for the ViteJS development server.
int5173DJANGO_VITE_DEV_SERVER_PORTThe server.port in vite.config.js for the ViteJS development server.
str""DJANGO_VITE_STATIC_URL_PREFIXThe directory prefix for static files built by ViteJS.
base.build.outDir.Example:
# settings.py
DJANGO_VITE_STATIC_URL_PREFIX = 'bundler'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (('bundler', '/srv/app/bundler/dist'),)
// vite.config.js
export default defineConfig({
base: '/static/bundler/',
...
})
str | PathPath(settings.STATIC_ROOT) / static_url_prefix / "manifest.json"DJANGO_VITE_MANIFEST_PATHThe absolute path, including the filename, to the ViteJS manifest file located in build.outDir.
str"legacy-polyfills"DJANGO_VITE_LEGACY_POLYFILLS_MOTIFThe motif used to identify assets for polyfills in the manifest.json. This is only applicable if you are using @vitejs/plugin-legacy.
str"@vite/client"DJANGO_VITE_WS_CLIENT_URLThe path to the HMR (Hot Module Replacement) client used in the vite_hmr_client tag.
str"@react-refresh""DJANGO_VITE_REACT_REFRESH_URLIf you're using React, this will generate the Javascript needed to support React HMR.
str"django_vite.core.asset_loader.DjangoViteAppClient"This is the fully qualified name of a Python class that extends or replaces DjangoViteAppClient. This allows you to customize almost any part of django-vite's loader behavior. The most requested reason for adding this feature is customizing how manifest.json is loaded.
See Loading assets from a CDN for an example of using a custom class to load the manifest from S3.
STATIC_URL
setting of Django.If you are serving your static files with whitenoise, by default your files compiled by vite will not be considered immutable and a bad cache-control will be set. To fix this you will need to set a custom test like so:
import re
# http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/django.html#WHITENOISE_IMMUTABLE_FILE_TEST
def immutable_file_test(path, url):
# Match vite (rollup)-generated hashes, à la, `some_file-CSliV9zW.js`
return re.match(r"^.+[.-][0-9a-zA-Z_-]{8,12}\..+$", url)
WHITENOISE_IMMUTABLE_FILE_TEST = immutable_file_test
For examples of how to setup the project in v3, please see django-vite-examples.
For another example that uses the module-level legacy settings, please see this example project here.
Thanks to Evan You for the ViteJS library.
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