Google App Engine css not loading after deployment with Luminus - clojure

I created a small application in clojure using luminus framework. When I run the app using lein run everything works well. It loads css and js properly but when I create a war file and deploy on google app engine, stylesheets don't work. I tried the solution given on this link: Serving static files with ring/compojure - from a war but it is still not working. May be there is something specific to luminus which I am missing. When I inspect it and look at console it shows this error
GET unbound: net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME"
I think I am missing something in luminus Can someone help please. Thanks

So I figured out why this is happening. The Selmer style tag {% style "filename" %} will generate an HTML script tag and prepend the value of the servlet-context key to the URI. When servlet-context key is not present then the original URI is set. So when you give src = "css/filename" it gives the src = servlet-context + "css/filename" which can be seen in inspect. So to avoid it either do not associate servlet-context or use normal stylesheet <link> to add your static css/js files.
To remove servlet-context Just comment out :servlet-context *app-context* line form render function in layout.clj file and it will start working.

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How can I upload new webpages to a django app?

I am quite new to django so I am sorry if I have overlooked something simple.
This is my current website: https://www.michealnestor.com
I am trying to remake it using react and django, and a lot of it is different, however I want to keep the functionality of being able to run my js apps from the website: https://www.michealnestor.com/projects EXAMPLE: https://www.michealnestor.com/projects/sortingalgorithms/ .
I want to be able to upload project folders, with html, css and js in them from the admin page, and then be able to open these projects from my website. I am not sure how to do this though.
I have tried manually placing such a folder in a templates folder in my app, and I have managed to use a view to load the html file, but this file can't seem to find the css and js.
Maybe I am going about this the wrong way, in any case I would appreciate some guidance!

Where to put service worker and manifest in a django project?

I am planning to convert a django project to Progressive Web App. I am not being able to figure out where to put the service_worker.js and manifest.json files in my django project. I've tried the following:
myproject/
|__app1
|__app2
|__manage.py
|__manifest.json
|__service_worker.js
and then tried to register the service worker from html file using relative path ../../../service_worker.js. That didn't work. It showed this error: "A bad HTTP response code (404) was received when fetching the script."
Another approach I tried is to put the service_worker.js and manifest.json in the static folders:
myproject/
|__app1/
|__static/
|__app1/
|__service_worker.js
|__manifest.json
|__app2
|__manage.py
and access those using {% static 'app1/service_worker.js' %}. The problem with this approach is that the scope of the registered service_worker.js becomes limited to that static folder. I've seen in one stackoverflow answer that I can explicitly set the scope of the service worker as {scope: '/'}. But, I think there might be a better approach which I am missing. Please let me know if anyone has a solution to this.
Looks like you want to have a common SW for all your app(1, 2). You can have both SW and manifest.json at the project root, link the manifest to your project's home page. If you want to cache the whole path, setting scope is not a bad idea, as the same has been officially documented here.
Look for "Registering your worker" part in the linked page.
Service Worker needs to be served from the same path it will handle so if you put after static,.it will handle only static/ so to put under '/' you have to create a view that returns the Service worker js.
def sw(request):
return HttpResponse(settings.SERVICE_WORKER)
Note: you can use django template to generate the final js
For Manifest, it is a usual static file.

Generating Production Build index.html With Server Side App

I want to do something very simple that I am a little surprised people are not talking about more. I would like to generate on my server my own index.html from the files that are created from building ember for production. I use ember for part of my application and so when a certain URL is hit, I would then like my ember app to take over. I have tried generating my own index.html by changing the flag storeConfigInMeta in ember-cli-build.js.
storeConfigInMeta: false
This gets rid of the ember app having its configuration stored in a meta tag but the app still does not work and gives the error,
Uncaught ReferenceError: define is not defined
I have the latest version of ember and I am building ember with the command,
ember build --env production
My server generated index.html looks identical accept for the integrity attributes set on the include js and css scripts. Is their anything I am missing about approaching ember this way? Should I not be trying to do this?
when a certain URL is hit, I would then like my ember app to take
over.
You need to configure app server to return index.html file for the certain URL.
Generally, it's not required you to create your own index.html.
May be you can check ember-islands addon to include Ember components anywhere on a server-rendered page.
I made a mistake. I was grabbing the production assets with a regular expression with my server and generating my index.html file with these assets in the wrong order. To anyone looking to do this, it is very possible and is more preferable in my opinion to using the generated index.html unless you are using ember for your entire site's routing. However do use the setting in ember-cli-build.js,
storeConfigInMeta: false
This will make it so your ember app stores it's settings in javascript instead of in a tag. This is required for generating your own index.html file.

Adding React inside a Django project

I am a Django developer just getting started with adding React to one page of my app, and really enjoying it so far. (It's a normal Django app with a home page, an about page, etc, but also a "chart" page with an interactive chart, and I want to build the interactive part in React.)
The problem is that I've started with the downloadable React starter kit and I'm not sure how to do things the 'right' way, and it's complicated by using Django to serve my project (all the tutorials seem to assume you're using node, which I'm not).
Right now I just have this in my Django template:
<div id="myapp"></div>
<script src="/static/js/vendor/react.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/vendor/JSXTransform.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/myapp.js"></script>
And myapp.js has all the React code. I'm aware this isn't really the grown-up modern JS way of doing things.
Now I want to use React Bootstrap, but it seems that the only sensible way to do that is with npm. So it's time to make the switch, but I'm not completely sure how.
I have run npm install react and npm install react-bootstrap from inside my static/js directory in Django. This has created a node_modules folder with various files inside.
So three questions from a confused newbie:
Where should I put my React code to work with these npm modules (should I use var React = require('react')?
Do I need to compile this code somehow (using webpack?)
How do I then integrate this with Django? Should I compile it all to myapp.js and just include that in my HTML template?
I'm also doing the same thing right now - moving away from embedded HTML script tags into require land. Here is the tutorial I am following, and here is my file system so far. I am doing it in Node but it shouldn't be that different for a Django project as the React frontend code is decoupled from any backend other than API URL's.
Your node_modules folder contains react-bootstrap. In your myapp.js, use the require('react-bootstrap') to load up the library which is contained in your node_modules folder.
Where should I put my React code to work with these npm modules (should I use var React = require('react')?
You can put the code anywhere. If your file system looks like this:
project/
react/
myapp.js
node_modules/
react source code
react bootstrap stuff
Then you can just do var React = require('react'); in myapp.js.
Do I need to compile this code somehow (using webpack?)
Yes, I would consult the webpack tutorial I linked earlier, it should explain how to compile all your React code into a single bundle.js. Here is also another good tutorial. This bundle.js file contains all the source code of your requires. So if your myapp.js looks something like
var React = require('react');
var ReactBootstrap = require('react-bootstrap');
then the bundle.js now contains all of the React and react-bootstrap javascript code, along with the myapp.js source code.
How do I then integrate this with Django? Should I compile it all to myapp.js and just include that in my HTML template?
I've only done work on Nodejs, but my React code so far hasn't touched any Node code, and I don't think it will touch any Django code (again I've never done Django so I might be wrong). All you need to do is compile with webpack, which spits out a bundle.js. You put that bundle.js in your HTML and it'll load up myapp.js.
ReactJS code is still JS code. Even though you do require/import/other module based syntax when coding, in browser you will still load the JS code by a script tag.
The problem is how to let the script generated by webpack(bundle.js) to work with other 'VanillaJS' script. For example, if you only write an individual component using React, like a small table. And its data(props/state) will depend on another element/event written in VanillaJS, e.g, a click listener on a button render by django template. Then the question is, how they communicate with each other.
So far, the solution I know is:
when you write React Code, instead of calling ReactDOM.render explicitly with preset props/state, you can store that in a global function, the arguments could be the props. You load this script first, then the other script can use this global function to trigger the React render Component.
I'm using Django Rest Framework to build an API and then connect to that API from React (using simple Create react app), this way the front end and back end are separated and the application is very scalable. The second way to do this, is call create react app then run build and point your django settings to that react build, this way the front end is not separated from the backend. I hope this helped, good luck.

Some basic questions about Django, Pyjamas and Clean URLs

I am farily new to the topic, but I am trying to combine both Django and Pyjamas. What would be the smart way to combine the two? I am not asking about communication, but rather about the logical part.
Should I just put all the Pyjamas generated JS in the base of the domain, say http://www.mysite.com/something and setup Django on a subdirectory, or even subdomain, so all the JSON calls will go for http://something.mysite.com/something ?
As far as I understand now in such combination theres not much point to create views in Django?
Is there some solution for clean urls in Pyjamas, or that should be solved on some other level? How? Is it a standard way to pass some arguments as GET parameteres in a clean url while calling a Pyjamas generated JS?
You should take a look at the good Django With Pyjamas Howto.
I've managed to get the following to work, but it's not ideal. Full disclosure: I haven't figured out how to use the django's template system to get stuff into the pyjamas UI elements, and I have not confirmed that this setup works with django's authentication system. The only thing I've confirmed is that this gets the pyjamas-generated page to show up. Here's what I did.
Put the main .html file generated by pyjamas in django's "templates" directory and serve it from your project the way you'd serve any other template.
Put everything else in django's "static" files directory.
Make the following changes to the main .html file generated by pyjamas: in the head section find the meta element with name="pygwt:module" and change the content="..." attribute to content="/static/..." where "/static/" is the static page URL path you've configured in django; in the body section find the script element with src="bootstrap.js" and replace the attribute with src="/static/bootstrap.js".
You need to make these edits manually each time you regenerate the files with pyjamas. There appears to be no way to tell pyjamas to use a specific URL prefix when generating together its output. Oh well, pyjamas' coolness makes up for a lot.
acid, I'm not sure this is as much an answer as you would hope but I've been looking for the same answers as you have.
As far as I can see the most practical way to do it is with an Apache server serving Pyjamas output and Django being used as simply a service API for JSONrpc calls and such.
On a side note I am starting to wonder if Django is even the best option for this considering using it simply for this feature is not utilizing most of it's functionality.
The issue so far as I have found with using Django to serve Pyjamas output as Django Views/Templates is that Pyjamas loads as such
Main html page loads "bootstrap.js" and depending on the browser used bootstrap.js will load the appropriate app page. Even if you appropriately setup the static file links using the Django templating language to reference and load "bootstrap.js", I can't seem to do the same for bootstrap.js referencing each individual app page.
This leaves me sad since I do so love the "cruftless URLS" feature of Django.