This is a simple template project utilizing Twitter Bootstrap and managing static assets with django-compressor.

The purpose of this project is two-fold.

• Keep a template project that can be improved later
• Compare django-compressor with other methods of managing static assets with Django

• git clone git://github.com/estebistec/bootstrap-compressord.git
• cd bootstrap-compressord
• git submodule update --init # Pull in the Twitter Bootstrap git submodule

• cd bootstrap_compressord
• ./manage.py collectstatic --noinput
• ./manage.py runserver

Run the following command from the source root directory:

• ./run-nginx.sh

This script will run collectstatic, fire up nginx as the current user based on a local conf, and then run the Django app behind it. nginx will server your static files. After your terminate the Django app, nginx will stop too.

NOTE I run nginx on Mac OSX, as installed by homebrew. YMMV on Linux or Windows.

• Create an S3 bucket to collect your static assets in and serve them from

Then, from the source root directory:

• S3KEY=XXX S3SECRET="XXX" S3BUCKET="mah-bukkit" ./run-s3.sh

Of course, substitute in your AWS key, secret, and bukkit, I mean, bucket!

The Bootstrap git submodule can be updated as follows:

• cd bootstrap_compressord/twitter_bootstrap/static
• git checkout v2.0.5 # Or other commit, preferably a release tag
• cd ../..
• git add bootstrap_compressord/twitter_bootstrap/static
• git commit -m "Upgrade twitter bootstrap to 2.0.5"