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Integrate HTML importmaps with Django for modern web development

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from dj_importmap.settings import INSTALLED_APPS

dj-importmap: HTML importmaps like a boss!

dj-importmaps is designed to help you declare your importmaps in a djangonic way.

Show me an example!

For instance, the following:

# importmaps.py in one of your Django apps
from importmap import static

importmaps = {
    # From your static files
    "SearchComponent": static("js/search-component.js"),
    # Or declare directly from a CDN
    "StimulusJS": "https://unpkg.com/stimulus@3.2.2/dist/stimulus.umd.js"
}

This will generate the following:

<script type="importmap">
  {
    "imports": {
        "SearchComponent": "/static/js/search-component.js",
        "StimulusJS": "https://unpkg.com/stimulus@3.2.2/dist/stimulus.js"
    }
  }
</script>

And now, you can use JS modules like nothing:

import {Controller, Application} from "StimulusJS"
import * as Search from "SearchComponent"

export default class {
    // ...
}

Cool! How do I use it?

  1. Install from PyPI

    pip install dj-importmap
    
  2. Add to your `INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # ...
        "importmap"
        # ...
    ]
    
  3. Create a importmaps.py next to your root urls.py or in any of your Django app:

    importmaps = {
        # ...
    }
    
  4. Add {% importmap %} to you template:

    {% load importmap %}
    <!doctype html>
    <html lang="fr" data-fr-scheme="light">
    <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
      <title></title>
      <!-- This must be placed before the very first <script> in order to work -->
      {% importmap %}
    </head>
    </html>
    

You're good to go!

Advanced usage

Per-app importmaps.py

You can declare an different importmap for your whole Django project as well as for each application. By default, when you call {% importmap %} in a template, dj-importmap will merge them all in the order the app were declared in INSTALLED_APPS, the latter take precedence over the former.

If you want to use a importmaps.py declared in a spcific app, you can use {% importmap "app_name" %} where app_name corresponds to the AppConfig.name declared in your Django's app apps.py. In this case, {% importmap %} will merge the app's importmaps.py to the project importmaps.py, if exists.

dj-importmap expects to find the project's importmaps.py next to the project's urls.py, as declared in settings.ROOT_URLCONF.

Alternatively, if settings.ROOT_IMPORTMAPCONF is declared and points to a valid Python module, dj-importmap will source that one as the project's root importmap.

Additionnal HTML attribute to the generated <script>

{% importmap %} accepts kwargs to let you add arbitrary HTML attributes to the generated <script>:

{% importmap defer="true" %}
<!-- Using attributes with chars unauthorized in Django templates -->
{% importmap defer="true" "yes" as "data-is-cool" %}
<!-- Attribute without value -->
{% importmap "defer" "yes" as "data-is-cool" %}

Note: trying to specify an HTML attribute with no value as the first argument of {% importmap %} creates an ambiguity with the optionam app name. In this case, {% importmap %} will raise a TemplateSyntaxError. {% importmap %} offer the possibility to suppress this ambiguity by setting a series of dashes as its first argument:

<!-- TemplateSyntaxError: ambiguity -->
`{% importmap "defer" %}`
<!-- Ok -->
{% importmap "--" "defer" %}

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