django-pwa

Library for adding progressive web app functionality in your django project.

Table of content

• Introduction
• Installing
• Configuration
• Usage
• Links

Introduction

This Django library adds progressive web app functionality in your django project.

When you open your site from your mobile browser, will prompt you to add the site to your home screen as an application.

Installing

pip install django-progressive

Configuration

Add django-progressive django_pwa to your installed apps INSTALLED_APPS in django settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    '...',
    'django_pwa'
    '...'
]

Define STATICFILES_DIRS

In settings.py using the prefix PWA_ and the keys from the web app manifest all in capital you can configure the pwa manifest.

PWA_NAME = 'test app'
PWA_SHORT_NAME = 'test_app'
PWA_ICONS = [
    {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-128x128.png",
        "sizes": "128x128",
        "type": "image/png"
    }, {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-144x144.png",
        "sizes": "144x144",
        "type": "image/png"
    }, {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-152x152.png",
        "sizes": "152x152",
        "type": "image/png"
    }, {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-192x192.png",
        "sizes": "192x192",
        "type": "image/png"
    }, {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-256x256.png",
        "sizes": "256x256",
        "type": "image/png"
    }, {
        "src": "/static/icons/icon-512x512.png",
        "sizes": "512x512",
        "type": "image/png"
    }
]

You can change the default worker location with PWA_WORKER_LOCATION.

PWA_WORKER_LOCATION = join('static', 'django_pwa_demo', 'service-worker.js')

Usage

Add django_pwa urls to your urls.py

from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    '...',
    path('', include('django_pwa.urls')),
    '...'
]

You can add {% load pwa_extras %} to use {% load_manifest %} template tag to load the manifest.json and {% load_worker %} to load the worker-app.js.

{% load pwa_extras %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>PWA Test</title>
    {% load_manifest %}
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello world!!!</h1>

{% load_worker %}
</body>
</html>

Links

• Progressive Web Apps
• Wikipedia
• WPA Manifest