django-database-views

Serve your single page Javascript applications from Django.

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-database-views.readthedocs.io.

Requirements

• Django > 1.8
• A database engine such as MySQL

Quickstart

Install django-database-views using pip:

pip install django-database-views

Add it to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'database_views.apps.DatabaseViewsConfig',
    ...
)

Create a model to store versions for your index template in your app's models.py:

from database_views.models import AbstractTemplate


class IndexTemplate(AbstractTemplate):

    class Meta:
        db_table = 'your_table_name' # For example 'index_template'.

Create a class-based view for your single page app in your app's views.py and assign your model to its model property:

from database_views.views import DatabaseTemplateView
from database_views.views import CachedTemplateResponse
from myapp.models import IndexTemplate


class IndexView(DatabaseTemplateView):
    app_name = 'main'
    model = IndexTemplate
    response_class = CachedTemplateResponse

Add a route for your index page view in your project's urls.py file:

from myapp.views import IndexView

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^$', IndexView.as_view())
    ...
]

That's it!! Go to your new route and you should see your single page app's index template served. Please ensure that you configure the serving of your app's static assets properly.

Features

• Easily serve your single page javascript applications from Django.
• Optionally cache your templates for a configurable amount of time.
• Works with ember-cli-deploy and more specifically with ember-cli-deploy-mysql.

Running Tests

To run tests use the following commands from the root of this project:

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install -r requirements_test.txt
(myenv) $ py.test

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter
• cookiecutter-djangopackage