Question

I’m a new developer on Django and I want to use some CoffeeScript in my dummy project. However, documentation about this topic isn’t good and I want to know from the experts which is the best option.

I was looking at possibilities like compressor but it is still confused. I’d really appreciate some pieces of advice.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For automatic compilation, there’s django-coffeescript. For a more complete toolchain (a bit like Rails Sprockets) there’s Gears, a stand-alone project with plugins for Django, Flask or compilation on the command line.

When I’ve used CoffeeScript with Django however, I’ve mostly preferred to set up compilation as a part of a build process (great to have one in any case), there I mostly used custom Paver scripts together with directory watching tools (like watchdog/kicker) to compile .coffee files to Javascript and putting them in my static directory.