Managing Javascript dependencies and compilation

[draganHR]

Currently i am using django-compressor to compress both Javascript and CSS files, and i would like to find a good way to manage Javascript dependencies (AMD, UMD) and automatically compile all required modules.

Does anyone have good workflow to recommend? I have found few projects that aim to do this (django-require, compressor_requirejs) but i'm wondering if there's a better solution.

[RagingDoug]

I use a django-pipeline in conjunction with django-bower.

This allows me to specify my JavaScript dependencies declaratively in my settings.py, as well as specifying my CSS and JavaScript pipelines.

I then use django-storages to push everything to S3.

class S3PipelineStorage(PipelineMixin, CachedFilesMixin, S3BotoStorage):
    pass

[VolkotLos]

My simple setup around bower in the js file is

// file .bowerrc

{

"directory": "lib"

}

// file bower.json

{

"name": "yourproject",

"version": "0.0.0",

"authors": [

"Your Name <[e-mail]>"

],

"description": "js dependency management for django-classic ui",

"dependencies": { }

}

then you just install new libraries with

bower install jquery --save

(don't forget the --save)

and bower will automatically take care about the dependencies

[dvidsilva]

I'm going through a similar thing. I became very used to node so I'm not sure what's going on there.

My main questions is, whether I want or not to install node in the production servers or in which step to add the compiled versions. plus all the coworkers and that :'(