Installation

• via virtualenv - yup we highly recommend it!

pip install django-spaceless-templates

Basic usage

Modify Your Django project settings’s module.

For production (note cached loader):

TEMPLATES = [
  {
      'DIRS': [
          str(APPS_DIR.path('templates')),
      ],
      'OPTIONS': {
          'loaders': [
              (
                  'django.template.loaders.cached.Loader', [
                      'django_spaceless_templates.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                      'django_spaceless_templates.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
                  ],
              ),
          ],
      },
  },
]

For development (each refresh reloads template):

TEMPLATES = [
  {
      'DIRS': [
          str(APPS_DIR.path('templates')),
      ],
      'OPTIONS': {
          'loaders': [
              'django_spaceless_templates.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
              'django_spaceless_templates.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
          ],
      },
  },
]

Be happy having less spaces and new lines in Your templates!

Advanced usage:

Using modified settings You can:

• turn on stripping only for templates with given extensions

TEMPLATE_MINIFIER_FILENAME_EXTENSIONS = ('.html', '.htm', )

• turn off stripping for particular directories

TEMPLATE_MINIFIER_EXCLUDED_DIRS = ('admin/', )

• turn off all stripping

TEMPLATE_MINIFIER = False # default = True

• run Your own strip_function, which preprocess templates

TEMPLATE_MINIFIER_STRIP_FUNCTION = 'template_minifier.utils.strip_spaces_in_template'

• use only in production

if DEBUG:
  TEMPLATE_MINIFIER = False

Known issues:

• Don’t use // one line comments in Your inline javascript <script> or .js templates. In some cases, if You are using lot of {% if %} there, it can comment out }; or }, for example:

// comment something - !!it's evil!!
{% if %}
function name(){
}
{% endif %}

Use /* */ instead

/* comment something - it's nice and clean <3! */
{% if %}
function name(){
}
{% endif %}

Or just set TEMPLATE_MINIFIER_TEMPLATE_TAGS = False

• Don’t use multiline {% blockquote %} without parameter trimmed. Otherwise your blockquote translations won’t be translated. Correct usage:

{% blockquote trimmed %}
    My paragraph...
{% blockquote %}

Running Tests:

(myenv) $ pip install -e .
(myenv) $ python ./runtests.py

Check package:

python -m build; python -m twine check dist/*

To do:

• {% new_line %} template_tag