Django Semantic UI

Easy python package that allow install, configure and use Semantic UI Framework with a Django project.

Requirements

• npm (last stable version)
• Python 2.7.x
• Django 1.11.x

Installing

1. Install gulp (CLI), the version 3.9.1 is the available to work with Semantic UI Framework.

$ sudo npm install -g gulp@3.9.1

2. Install the django-semantic-ui package:

$ pip install django-semantic-ui

3. Configure django-semantic-ui in the settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'django_semantic_ui',
]

4. Running the install command

$ python manage.py semantic_ui install

NOTE: You need to define the settings required to install semantic-ui module, see: Install Semantic

• You can use the follow options when the semantic-ui module is configured:

❯ Automatic (Use default locations and all components)

? We detected you are using NPM Nice! Is this your project folder? /home/franklinitiel/Documents/TSJ/projects/personal/python_tests/semanticui/static (Use arrow keys)
❯ Yes

? Where should we put Semantic UI inside your project? (semantic/) semantic

5. Running the gulp build command

$ python manage.py semantic_ui gulp_build

Settings Development or Local environment

6. Add 'django.template.context_processors.static' to context_processors option on the TEMPLATES settings

# settings.py
# TEMPLATES settings
'context_processors': [
    ...,
    'django.template.context_processors.static',
    ...,
]

7. Configure the static files and folder, see: Managing static files

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

8. Add CSS and JS to your django project

{% load dsu %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Semantic UI Test</title>
    {% dsu_stylesheet_url %}
</head>
<body>
    <!-- Your HTML code -->
    {% dsu_jquery_url %}
    {% dsu_javascript_url %}
</body>
</html>

Settings Production environment

• Configure the static files and folder, see: Managing static files

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

• And execute the collectstatic command

$ python manage.py collectstatic

Additional settings

• GULP_VERSION by default is None, if you want to install a specific version of gulp module (local), you can use this settings, by example:

# settings.py
GULP_VERSION = '3.9.1'

• SEMANTIC_UI_VERSION by default is None, if you want to install a specific version of semantic-ui module (local), you can use this settings, by example:

# settings.py
SEMANTIC_UI_VERSION = '^2.4.2'

• SEMANTIC_DIRNAME by default is 'semantic'', if you have defined a custom dirname for the JS and CSS files when the Semantic UI Framework was installed (step 4), you need to add it on this settings.

# settings.py
SEMANTIC_DIRNAME = 'semantic'

• DSU_JQUERY_URL by default is 'https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js', if you have defined a custom path to you jquery, so, you can use this template tag.

# settings.py
DSU_JQUERY_URL = '...your jquery path...'

Uninstall django-semantic-ui

• You can uninstall Semantic UI Framework and Gulp (local version) using the follow command:

$ python manage.py semantic_ui uninstall && pip uninstall django-semantic-ui

Releases notes:

• 1.0.0: Initial and beta version (only installation and settings).
• 1.0.1: Bugs fixed semantic folder not found or not exists.
• 1.0.2: Bugs fixed semantid and static folders not found or not exists.
• 1.0.3: README.md file updated, bugs fixed self.semantic_ui_version undefined.
• 1.1.0: Logic updated to install / uninstall django-semantic-ui, new settings added.
• 1.1.1: Bugs fixed related with the semantic files path.
• 1.1.2: README.md updated
• 1.2.0: New templatetags added to load the javascripts and stylesheets files
• 1.2.1: Bugs fixed using the DSU_JQUERY_URL settings.
• 1.2.2: README.md updated, New static method added to load the STATIC_URL from django project.
• 1.2.3: README.md updated, bugs fixed to execute the command "python manage.py runserver" after installed.