NPR’s App Template
by @tylrfishr and @jeremybowers
A brief overview
An opinionated project template for client-side apps.
We use it for everything we do.
Thus, the app template is highly customizable.
Things we made
The guts
Flask
Fabric
Jinja2
Amazon S3
Bootstrap
(LESS)
Whatever else the project needs
Starting a project
Cloning
Bootstrapping
Default GitHub Issues
Initial Project Template
Let's take a look at everything we have.
Spreadsheets!
Publish spreadsheet
Configure app
Import your data
Update copy
Write Jinja templates to interact with the spreadsheet.
One-touch deployment
Cross your fingers
What happened?
Deployment targets are set in app_config.py.
LESS files and JSTs are compiled.
Jinja templates are baked to flat HTML.
All CSS and JS files are minified and compressed into one file.
All assets are gzipped.
Everything is pushed to s3.