Silica

Silica is a collection of tools to reduce common code used in the frontend-backend interfacing of web sites. The initial version is intended primarily for combining Django and Angular, but the project is designed to eventually support other frameworks. This is an early phase project and the interface and behavior of components may change radically before the final release.

If you are interested in helping, we are seeking collaborators. Please contact zags [at] zagaran.com if you are interested.

Django

Add the following to your settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'silica.django_app',
    ...
)

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            ...
            'builtins': [
                'silica.django_app.templatetags.silica',
                'django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles',
            ],
        },
        ...
    },
]

Use the base template silica/base.html

Use the model silica.django_app.models.TimestampedModel