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Say you have an existing database-backed Django site. Something simple, like single model containing a record for every minor league baseball team. The model is accessed by one view that lists all the teams, and another that accepts a slug and then creates a detail page all about that team.
Is there a good option for converting the app into a stack of baked out flat files, so that it could be served from a static file service like Amazon's S3?
I've toyed with Hyde but it's not clear to me how it applies to an existing site backed by a database.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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django.contrib.staticfiles provides a convenience management command for gathering static files in a single directory so you can serve them easily. This will copy all files from your static folders into the STATIC_ROOT directory. Use a web server of your choice to serve the files.
Aside from the HTML generated by the server, web applications generally need to serve additional files — such as images, JavaScript, or CSS — necessary to render the complete web page. In Django, we refer to these files as “static files”.
Files are searched by using the enabled finders . The default is to look in all locations defined in STATICFILES_DIRS and in the 'static' directory of apps specified by the INSTALLED_APPS setting.
{% load static %} tells django to load a set of template tags/filters defined in the file static.py (in a folder templatetags in any of the apps of your project). The same way you can define your own tags, put them in a file util_tags.py and load them with {% load util_tags %} .
django-medusa is largely unmaintained. These are some alternatives mentioned in the project's README:
- django-bakery, built and maintained the lovely people at the Los Angeles Times Data Desk. (Read about it here.)
- The alsoicode/django-medusa fork, by Brandon Taylor. Among other things, it's been kept up to date for newer versions of Django.
- django-freeze by Fabio Caccamo.
- django-staticgen by Mishbah Razzaque.
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I understand your intent, but any decent framework these days offers some sort of caching mecanism that alleviate the pains of dynamic content. With a properly implemented cache, the difference between static and dynamic will be trivial. Trust me.
Happy coding, friend.
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