Django frontserver

Run grunt/gulp watcher and django server with a single command.

Install

$ pip install django-frontserver

Usage

Add frontserver to INSTALLED_APPS and run:

$ python manage.py frontserver [--apps=app1,app2] [--nodefault] [--nowatch] [runserver args]

This is the same as:

$ python manage.py runserver
$ gulp default watch

Or this if --apps=blog,shop:

$ python manage.py runserver
$ gulp blog blog:watch shop shop:watch

Configuration

FRONTSERVER = {
    'BUILDER': 'gulp', # Command for run
    'BUILDER_ARGS': '', # Additional command-line arguments
    'DEFAULT_TASK': 'default', # Name of default task
    'WATCH_TASK': 'watch', # Name of watch task
}