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

This is a structure I use in a project separated into multiple apps. It's a good practice to adapt this structure right at the start -- you don't want global rearrangement when you need to add another app to your project.

/media
  favicon.ico
  robots.txt
  /upload # user uploaded files
  /js  # global js files like jQuery
  /main_app
    /js
    /css
    /img
  /other_app
    /js
    /css
    /img

Then I use excellent StaticMiddleware from django-annoying to serve files. settings.py:

import os
import annoying

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "media")
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'annoying.middlewares.StaticServe',
    #...
)