Skip to main content

A module for Django that allows to build pattern libraries for your projects.

Project description

Django pattern library

A module for Django that helps you to build pattern libraries and follow the Atomic design methodology.

Objective

At the moment, the main focus is to allow developers and designers use exactly the same Django templates in a design pattern library and in production code.

There are a lot of alternative solutions for building pattern libraries already. Have a look at Pattern Lab and Astrum, for example. But at Torchbox we mainly use Python and Django and we find it hard to maintain layout on big projects in several places: in a project's pattern library and in actual production code. This is our attempt to solve this issue and reduce the amount of copy-pasted code.

Documentation

Documentation is located here.

How to install

  1. Add pattern_library into your INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # ...
    
        'pattern_library',
    
        # ...
    ]
    
  2. Add pattern_library.loader_tags into the TEMPLATES setting. For example:

    TEMPLATES = [
        {
            'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
            'DIRS': [],
            'APP_DIRS': True,
            'OPTIONS': {
                'context_processors': [
                    'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                    'django.template.context_processors.request',
                    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                    'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                ],
                'builtins': ['pattern_library.loader_tags'],
            },
        },
    ]
    

    Note that this module only supports the Django template backend out of the box.

  3. Set the PATTERN_LIBRARY_TEMPLATE_DIR setting to point to a template directory with your patterns:

    PATTERN_LIBRARY_TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'project_styleguide', 'templates')
    

    Note that PATTERN_LIBRARY_TEMPLATE_DIR must be available for template loaders.

  4. Include pattern_library.urls into your urlpatterns. Here's an example urls.py:

    from django.apps import apps
    from django.conf.urls import url, include
    
    
    urlpatterns = [
        # ... Your URLs
    ]
    
    if apps.is_installed('pattern_library'):
        urlpatterns += [
            url(r'^pattern-library/', include('pattern_library.urls')),
        ]
    

Developer docs

Developer docs can be found here.

TODO

  • Add a note about production usage
  • Tests: Add tests. It's ok to not bother about tests during prototyping, but it will be extremely hard to maintain the project without tests.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

django-pattern-library-0.2.5.tar.gz (22.9 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

django_pattern_library-0.2.5-py3-none-any.whl (24.1 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file django-pattern-library-0.2.5.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: django-pattern-library-0.2.5.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 22.9 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: poetry/0.12.17 CPython/3.7.2 Darwin/17.7.0

File hashes

Hashes for django-pattern-library-0.2.5.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 5d4983b562b69dd296b6ee4c11639ba38d796cd77bc6c8965fc33446721c5e66
MD5 30546ba986b3fb3622f16e4cac81f3be
BLAKE2b-256 30dead2bf0dd0e5e4b122bccffc5b47307a18ee8f9783d319ed66076948e963a

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file django_pattern_library-0.2.5-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for django_pattern_library-0.2.5-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 9addc8de798159ecee5fcf6a6ec9459b6d7b94ff4291138d025d803a35a42e2b
MD5 171a2d93dc45f33aed07b3f99b857e50
BLAKE2b-256 f2630631630e7c4babca8137b49d27a3d46128dcc7c95a6de181f28bbe4c6275

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page