Including JS/CSS in reusable widget library

[Thomas Güttler]

The way django handles static media works very well for js/css files which are included
in the library.

But if you want to build in external js/css files it gets ugly.

For example nice django-selectable widget. Has a long documentation on how to
include jquery-ui:

http://django-selectable.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quick-start.html#including-jquery-jquery-ui

I came across this, because we use django-selectable in one project with success, but
it failed in an other. The reason was the missing jquery-ui js-files.

Ain't there a better solution for this?

Documentation like the above pages are good. But it is even better if there is
a common way how to handle this in the django world.


Thomas

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[Collin Anderson]

I usually use "assets" (class Media) for including cdn hosted libraries.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/media/

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 01.10.2014 um 14:44 schrieb Collin Anderson:
> I usually use "assets" (class Media) for including cdn hosted libraries.
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/media/

Example: how can a reusable widget library tell that it needs jquery-ui?

Up to now the only way I see is, that the reusable widget library includes jquery-ui
in its assets (static files via Media).

But if you use two or three reusable widget libraries on one page
each widgets loads its own version of jquery-ui.

Loading one js library several times is looking for trouble.

If you just reuse the widget library in a commercial closed source environment,
you can define fixed paths to libraries like jquery, jquery-ui, ...

But this does not work for reuse in the open source world.

I am missing something for a better reuse in the django world here.

Unfortunately I don't see a solution today. But maybe some else does.