django-notifications VS django-compressor

My team and I have just put dozens of man hours into building a notifications Django app for our Django project. It consists of a Notification model (heavily inspired by this https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications) and we've added ways to send notifications, manage which models & which events create notifications and ways for users to manage their preferences.

django-notifications-hq - notification system

I'm considering to use django-notifications and Web Sockets to send real-time notifications to iOS/Android and Web apps. So I'll probably use Django Channels.

Go to djangopackages.org and find a reusable app that do what your looking for. Like this one: https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications

Check out https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications

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.