Django Vue Hybrid (with vite)

This repo is intended as a proof-of-concept/base project for a hybrid Django/Vue app. This approach is fairly opinionated and based on experimentation by raisins.

Aside from the Vue integration, this is a standard dockerized Django 3/PostgreSQL project.

The common app within django_web consists of one TemplateView with some extra context for demonstration purposes.

Vue is managed by vue-cli, which is installed globally within the container.

Node modules and commands are managed by Yarn.

Django and Vue are linked by django-webpack-loader and webpack-bundle-tracker. See the common/index.html template for use of the {% render_bundle %} tag.

This project also uses tailwindcss as a PostCSS plugin, along with plugins for css imports and nested rules. Tailwind is managed through the postcss-cli.

The vue.config.js file does several important things:

• configures devServer to use the port defined in docker-compose.yml
• handles publicPath/outputDir options for serve/build on dev/production
• alters the Webpack configuration to not generate html files or handle preloading or prefetching output files, as these are handled by Django and webpack-loader
• defines how to chunk files

Project Setup

• Install Docker
• Clone or fork the project
• cp django_web/.env_example django_web/.env
• docker-compose up
• Go into djangovue_web container docker exec -it django_vue_web bash
• In the docker container now run: yarn install and then yarn serve
• As configured via docker-compose.yml, the project will be running at localhost:8000/

Development

Check out scripts defined in package.json

• yarn serve will compile tailwindcss and start both Django's dev server and vue-cli's dev server, configured for hot reloading
• Python packages are managed with Poetry. To use the Poetry cli within the container, you must first source $HOME/.poetry/env.

Demo

Look at the following files to see a demo of Django and Vue playing together.

• django_web/apps/core/views.py defining a simple template view with some extra context
• django_web/apps/core/templates/demo.html passing the Django context to the Vue component as a prop
• django_web/vue/components/DemoComponent.vue a simple Vue component using Tailwindcss
• django_web/vue/main.js lazy loading the Vue component so it can be used in the Django template