django CMS Frontend

django CMS Frontend is a plugin bundle which originally built on and improved the architecture of djangocms-bootstrap4. Its objective is to provide a toolset to quickly create re-usable frontend components and comes preloaded with a set of popular frontend components independent of the currently used frontend framework such as Bootstrap, or its specific version.

Key features

• Easy to implement re-usable frontend custom components, which in the simplest case consist of a template and declarative sort of form class.
• Support of Bootstrap 5, django CMS 3.8+ and django CMS 4 out of the box.
• Separation of plugins from css framework, i.e. no need to rebuild you site's plugin tree if css framework is changed in the future, e.g. from Bootstrap 5 to a future version.
• Leverage of new djangocms-link features allowing to link to internal pages provided by other applications, such as djangocms-blog.
• Nice and well-arranged admin frontend of djangocms-bootstrap4
• Extensible within the project and with separate project (e.g. a theme app). Create your own components with a few lines of code only.
• Plugins are re-usable as UI components anywhere in your project (e.g. in a custom app) giving your whole project a more consistent user experience.

Description

The plugins are framework agnostic and the framework can be changed by adapting your project's settings. Also, it is designed to avoid having to rebuild your CMS plugin tree when upgrading e.g. from one version of your frontend framework to the next.

django CMS Frontend uses django-entangled by Jacob Rief to avoid bloating your project's database with css framework-dependent tables. Instead all design parameters are stored in a common JSON field and future releases of improved frontend features will not require to rebuild your full plugin tree.

The plugins are designed to be re-usable as UI components in your project, e.g. in a custom app, giving your whole project a more consistent user experience.

Contributing

Because this is a an open-source project, we welcome everyone to get involved in the project and receive a reward for their contribution. Become part of a fantastic community and help us make django CMS the best CMS in the world.

We'll be delighted to receive your feedback in the form of issues and pull requests. Before submitting your pull request, please review our contribution guidelines.

The project makes use of git pre-commit hooks to maintain code quality. Please follow the installation steps to get pre-commit setup in your development environment.

We're grateful to all contributors who have helped create and maintain this package. Contributors are listed at the contributors section.

One of the easiest contributions you can make is helping to translate this addon on Transifex.

Requirements

See REQUIREMENTS in the setup.py file for additional dependencies:

• django-cms, version 3.7 or later
• django-filer, version 1.7 or later
• djangocms-attributes-field, version 1.0 or later
• djangocms-text
• django-entangled

Make sure django Filer and django CMS Text CKEditor are installed and configured appropriately.

Installation

For a manual install:

• run pip install djangocms-frontend

• add the following entries to your INSTALLED_APPS (or only those you need):

  'easy_thumbnails',
  'djangocms_frontend',
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.accordion',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.alert',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.badge',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.card',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.carousel',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.collapse',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.content',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.grid',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.icon',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.image',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.jumbotron',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.link',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.listgroup',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.media',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.tabs',  # optional
  'djangocms_frontend.contrib.utilities',  # optional
  

• run python manage.py migrate

djangocms-frontend has a weak dependencies on djangocms-icon you can install separately or by adding an option:

pip install djangocms-frontend[djangocms-icon]  # Installs djangocms-icon for icon support in links

Documentation

See readthedocs for the documentation.

License

See LICENSE.