django-compressor VS Poe the Poet

In general, you can use almost any plain JS library by simply loading it in your view template. For forms specifically, you can write custom widgets and define dependencies to libraries via form assets. django-compressor might be worth a look if you go heavy on this.

Idk, it depends on how much you care about the page loading time. Even without the PurgeCSS filter, I would recommend the Django Compressor app. I use it on all my websites. It automatically merges your css/js files and minifies them (removes white spaces, comments, etc.). It also creates a unique name for the combined CSS so if you changed your CSS files, your users will always see the fresh version, not the cached by the browser one.

django_compressor - for merging and minimizing css and js assets

django-compressor with django-libsass for auto sass compilation

But isn't that what you have django-compressor for?

The external dependencies were downloaded into the static/ folder containing all frontend assets using yarn and a package.json. Other than that, yarn was not used. Next I ran a bash script that removed all files I did not need, keeping the javascript, css and font files that should be served. In html, these files where directly included. I knew that loading many files is bad, so I used django-compressor to combine them into one big file. Conveniently, this tool also provided me with a way to compile scss.

Compatible with the new pyproject.toml standard, and working well with poetry, there's poethepoet. It's a good alternative, it keeps in the python environment, it's installable through pip(x), and it's cross platform for the windows pythonistas (and there are some, not everyone has more than 1 computer at home...)

I use Poe The Poet https://github.com/nat-n/poethepoet.

So the Poetry maintainer has explained here about why they don’t have the better scripts support you mentioned. However, someone has already built this plugin for Poetry to achieve it.

Poe the Poet, probably.

I've been working on this tool for a while now, which I'm starting to feel is ready for a bit more exposure, it's called Poe the Poet.

nat-n: developer of poethepoet

poe: Not Django-specific, but nice task-runner that uses pyproject.toml