Updates to Pinax Starter Projects
Starter Project Updates
Back in August we announced a move to webpack
while this was the right direction, we ran into friction using webpack as a
tool. We switched to gulp plus browserify instead mainly because of the
transparency and control of the build procress that we gain from gulp. But
also, and maybe more important depending on what you are spending more of your
time on, the rebuilds when running npm run watch is order of magnitudes
faster when updating less files than it was using the less-builder with
webpack.
We worked to maintain the same operational interface for building static with
npm run build and npm run watch, but instead of calling webpack and using
the webpack.config.js the scripts are calling gulp using the gulpfile.js.
The configuration that drives everything can be found in gulp/config/index.js
and all the gulp tasks that are run can be found in modules under gulp/tasks/*.js.
As a result, it’s super easy to customize and debug.
We also made some minor updates to versions of some different requirements like
Django and DUA, but the primary 2.0.0 release bump on our starter projects
was this build process switch.
Pinax Command Line Interface
There was a known issue with the
installed command line interface that made it so that if you installed any other
Pinax.* packages, the CLI’s module, pinax.py was clobbered and would not
run anymore. This was fixed
and pinax-cli==0.5 was released.