Javascript with Django?

Question

I know this has been asked before, but I\'m having a hard time setting up JS on my Django web app, even though I\'m reading the documentation.

I\'m running the Django de

Answer 1

For my development work, I use Django's built-in server, but I read the media files from the same directory as they would be in production (/srv/nginx/sitename/media/). So I clone the exact directory structure of my production server on my computer at home, letting me seamlessly push changes to production without having to change anything.

I keep two different settings.py files, though. My home settings.py file has my local database settings, a different MEDIA_URL setting, and DEBUG set to True. I use this in my URLs file to enable the server view for local media (since I don't run nginx on my home computer).

In urls.py:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
            {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
    )

From settings.py (note, MEDIA_ROOT must be an absolute path):

# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
MEDIA_ROOT = '/srv/nginx//media/'

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases).
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/'

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    # I've taken out my other processors for this example
    "django.core.context_processors.media",
)

In a template:

{% endblock %}

Filesystems:

/srv/nginx/
    /media  <-- MEDIA_ROOT/MEDIA_URL points to here
        /css
            base.css
            form.css
        /img
        /js

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Oh, also: if that's a direct copy from your urls.py file, you forgot a comma after your serve view, that's causing your TypeError ;)