reactpy-django
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CSS Modules inspired by ReactJS
Current Situation
There is built-in method of directly tying a CSS file to a component
Proposed Actions
Design Idea: Apply in-line styles via Python cssselect
We could parse the CSS document using lxml.cssselect
and potentially add the styles in-line. Would need to generate some sort of VDOM-LXML compatibility layer though. Maybe we store our VDOM as an attribute on each LXML node?
Design Idea: Apply in-line styles via Python homebrewed VDOM selector engine
It might be make sense (from a performance standpoint) to homebrew a VDOM-compatible CSS selection engine... There are a couple we can take inspiration from: vtree-select
, cssauron
. This would be a pretty large undertaking, and gets really tricky with all of the CSS level 3 selectors.
~~Design Idea: Leverage django_css
~~
~~Add a css_module
decorator that loads a stylesheet using django_css(..., only_once=True)
(see here: #194).~~
~~By default, it will attempt to load the Django static file named <REACTPY_STYLESHEET_SUBDIR>/<COMPONENT_DOTTED_PATH>.css
. But the user will be able to override the path using positional args.~~
~~Will need a settings.py
configuration setting called REACTPY_STYLESHEET_SUBDIR
. Additionally, it makes sense for a manual override to exist within the decorator css_module(subdir="...")
for library maintainers to use.~~
This doesn't really "tie" a piece of CSS to a component. It only ties the load time together.
~~Design Idea: Apply in-line styles via JavaScript (client sided)~~
~~It's also possible for us to instead apply the inline styles client-sided, via some kind of JavaScript. There appears to be a package that does this.~~
This would be pretty janky in terms of loading behavior.
Blocked on https://github.com/reactive-python/reactpy-django/issues/194
Unmarking this as blocked, since a better approach is likely going to involve inline styles.