csstweaks-client

csstweaks-client is the Django companion to the csstweaks browser extension. It shortens the feedback loop for local CSS work: the extension reads the stylesheet currently served by Django, lets you adjust it in the browser, and writes the result back to the source file that Django's static-file finders resolve.

This is a development helper, not a production editing API. Every view returns 404 unless Django's DEBUG setting is enabled, and projects should mount its URLs only inside the same DEBUG check.

Install

pip install csstweaks-client

Add csstweaks_client to INSTALLED_APPS, then mount it in the project's root URL configuration:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += [path("__csstweaks__/", include("csstweaks_client.urls"))]

Start Django normally and connect the csstweaks extension to the development site. The client works with stylesheets found in a STATICFILES_DIRS directory or an installed app's static/ directory.

Endpoints

• GET /__csstweaks__/ping — the extension uses this to find the helper.
• GET /__csstweaks__/read?path=<STATIC_URL-relative path> — returns raw CSS.
• POST /__csstweaks__/write — {"path": "...", "content": "..."} overwrites the source file.

For development of the client itself, install this checkout in editable mode:

pip install -e .

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