DBCA Django web template

This project consists of a basic Django application containing HTML templates that provide a starting point for web applications used by the Department. The base template consists of a mobile-friendly HTML5 template with a fixed top navbar, plus static assets. The project also contains functional examples of login and logged out templates.

The base template is based upon HTML5 Boilerplate.

Development

Dependencies for this project are managed using uv. With uv installed, change into the project directory and run:

uv sync

Activate the virtualenv like so:

source .venv/bin/activate

Manage new or updated project dependencies with uv also, like so:

uv add newpackage==1.0

Run unit tests using pytest (or tox, to test against multiple Python versions):

pytest -sv
tox -v

Releases

Tagged releases are built and pushed to PyPI automatically using a GitHub workflow in the project. Update the project version in pyproject.toml and tag the required commit with the same value to trigger a release. Packages can also be built and uploaded manually, if desired.

Build the project locally using uv, publish to the PyPI registry using the same tool if you require:

uv build
uv publish

Installation

1. Install: uv add webtemplate-dbca.
2. Add 'webtemplate_dbca' to INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Ensure that the staticfiles application is included and configured correctly.
4. (Optional) Ensure that you have defined the following named URLs: login and logout (this requirement can be overriden, see below).
5. Extend the included base template by placing the following at the head of your own templates, e.g. {% extends "webtemplate_dbca/base.html" %}
6. Place page content within the required blocks (see below).

Included CSS and JavaScript

The base template includes the following CSS and JavaScript assets:

• Modernizr (HTML5 polyfills)
• Bootstrap 5 (CSS & JS)

Additional styling can be included using the extra_style or extra_js blocks, like so::

{% load static from staticfiles %}

{% block extra_style %}
{{ block.super }}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/custom.css' %}">
{% endblock %}

You can also overide the base_style and base_js blocks completely to use different CSS or JS libraries. Note that you will also need to replace the top_navbar block contents if you replace the base Bootstrap CSS & JS.

Template blocks

The base template contains a number of block tags that are used to render the content of your project. The main template content blocks are as follows:

• navbar_links - used to define navigation links in the top navbar.
• navbar_auth - used to display either a Login or Logout link.
• page_content - used to contain the page's main content.
• page_footer - used to contain a page footer area.

Note that the navbar_auth block contains {% url %} templatetags with named URLs called login and logout. If this is not required or inappropriate for your project, simply override the navbar_auth block in the base template like so::

{% block navbar_auth %}{% endblock %}

In addition, a number of context variables are defined:

• page_title - used to populate the page <title> tags.
• site_title - used to populate the projects's title in the top navbar.
• site_acronym - used to populate a shorter title in the navbar (B4 template).

Context variables should be passed to templates in every view.

Bootstrap 5 examples

To extend the base template with an optional row to display alert messages plus a shaded footer div, try the following (further page content is then injected to the page_content_inner block)::

{% extends "webtemplate_dbca/base.html" %}

{% block extra_style %}
<style>
    .footer {background-color: lightgrey}
</style>
{% endblock %}

{% block page_content %}
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <!-- Messages  -->
        {% if messages %}
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col">
                {% for message in messages %}
                <div class="alert{% if message.tags %} alert-{{ message.tags }}{% endif %}">
                    {{ message|safe }}
                </div>
                {% endfor %}
            </div>
        </div>
        {% endif %}

        <div class="row">
            <div class="col">
                {% block page_content_inner %}{% endblock %}
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
{% endblock %}

{% block page_footer %}
<footer class="footer mt-auto py-3">
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col">
                <small class="float-right">&copy; Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions</small>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</footer>
{% endblock page_footer %}