django-simplestatic 0.0.5
A highly opinionated drop-in library for static file management in Django
License: MIT

django-simplestatic
===================

Django SimpleStatic is an opinionated Django app which makes it very simple to
deal with static media, with extremely minimal configuration, as long as:

* You store your static media in one directory, rather than alongside each app.
* You want your files served from S3, rather from your own servers.
* You want to use Google Closure Compiler to compress your JavaScript.
* You want to compress your javascript ahead of time, rather than during the
  request.
* You don't use any of those fancy CSS precompilers like LESS or SCSS. (This
  may change someday as my personal preferences change.)

If any of the above don't hold true, then this library probably won't work for
you.  That said, if all of the above do hold true for you, then this app will
likely be the simplest and best way to handle your static media.


Installation
------------

1. pip install django-simplestatic

2. Add 'simplestatic' to your INSTALLED_APPS:

.. code-block:: python

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'django.contrib.auth',
        'django.contrib.contenttypes',
        'django.contrib.sessions',
        'django.contrib.sites',
        'django.contrib.admin',

        # ... all your installed apps

        'simplestatic',
    )

3. In your settings file, set the following values:

.. code-block:: python

    SIMPLESTATIC_DIR = '/path/to/your/static/media/directory'

    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE'
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY_HERE'
    AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'YOUR_STATIC_BUCKET_HERE'

4. In your urls.py, import the simplestatic_debug_urls function and execute it
   to the end of your urlpatterns:

.. code-block:: python

    from simplestatic.urls import simplestatic_debug_urls

    urlpatterns = patterns('',
        # ... all of your url patterns right here
    ) + simplestatic_debug_urls()

5. In your template (or templates) import and use the simplestatic template
   tags, which might look something like this:

.. code-block:: html+django

    {% load simplestatic_tags %}

    <head>
      <title>I love django-simplestatic!</title>

      {% simplestatic %}
        {% compress_css "css/bootstrap.css" %}
        {% compress_css "css/screen.css" %}
        {% compress_js "js/jquery-1.9.1.js" %}
        {% compress_js "js/global.js" %}
      {% endsimplestatic %}
    </head>

6. Before you push your code, run the static_sync management command to
   compress any CSS and JS and upload the whole directory to S3:

.. code-block:: console

    python manage.py static_sync


Advanced Configuration
----------------------

Even though in the vast majority of cases, you'll only need to do what was
mentioned above, django-simplestatic offers a number of settings that you might
want to tweak.  Provided here is a reference of every setting


Required Settings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SIMPLESTATIC_DIR:
    The directory where you store all of your static media.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:
    Your Amazon Web Services access key.

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
    Your Amazon Web Services secret access key.

AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME:
    The S3 bucket in which to store and serve all of your static media.


Optional Settings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SIMPLESTATIC_DEBUG: (Defaults to DEBUG)
    A boolean determining whether to use the minimized, compressed versions of
    the files uploaded to S3.  If set to True, then the full development
    versions of the files will be served instead.  You shouldn't have to touch
    this, as by default it's set to the same value as your Django DEBUG value.

SIMPLESTATIC_DEBUG_PATH: (Defaults to 'static/')
    The URL path from which to serve static media during development.

SIMPLESTATIC_CUSTOM_DOMAIN: (Defaults to S3 subdomain URL)
    A custom domain from which to serve static media in production. For
    example, you may want to use CloudFront as a CDN in front of your S3
    bucket, which can be achieved by

    .. code-block:: python

        SIMPLESTATIC_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = 'asdfasdf.cloudfront.net'


SIMPLESTATIC_COMPRESSED_DIR: (Defaults to 'compressed')
    The URL path in S3 to place the compressed and minified versions of the CSS
    and JS.

    For example, in the default case where this is set to 'compressed', your
    css and js might be located in a location like one of the following:

        http://example.s3.amazonaws.com/compressed/6bf0c67b74b26425832a17bbf27b9cb9.css
        http://example.s3.amazonaws.com/compressed/97a548fc6b62d5bb9f50e6a95b25d8db.js

CLOSURE_COMPILATION_LEVEL: (Defaults to 'SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS')
    The Google Closure Compiler compilation level option.  See the following
    page for more information:

        https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/compilation_levels

CLOSURE_COMPILER_COMMAND: (Defaults to 'java -jar /path/to/supplied/closure.jar')
    The command required to run Google Closure Compiler.