Collapsible Sidebar Using Bootstrap for Django

Collapsible Sidebar Using Bootstrap is a base template with a bootstrap simple customization in self-hosted mode (non-CDN).

Features:

• Bootstrap 5.3
• Django 4
• Included demo at example folder
• Templates included:
  • bootstrap_base.html
  • snippets/show_err.html
  • snippets/show_messages.html
• Templates overridden:
  • registration/login.html
  • registration/password_change_form.html
  • 403.html
  • 404.html
  • 500.html
• Bootstrap customization available at bootstrap-theme directory.
• Custom font from google-fonts in local static files.

Bootstrap theme and fonts are customizable using scripts included. See details bellow.

Testing templates with example/demo

An example is included in the example folder with a Makefile to initialize the project and preview the templates. More details in example/README

Template preview

Installation

The preferred way to install is via pip

pip3 install django-bootstrap-sidebar

but you can install in develop mode cloning this repo but static files are not included in the repo. See Customize bootstrap theme section for details.

After installing your Django instance in settings.py, add bootstrapsidebar before django.contrib.auth since some auth templates are overridden.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'bootstrapsidebar'
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
]

Blocks available in page layout

The base template (bootstrap_base.html) includes the following hierarchical blocks:

• block custom-css
• block head
• block page-wrapper: to override full page, included sidebar.
  • block sidebar
  • block navbar: to override top navbar
    • navbar-links: only to add links in default template navbar.
  • block messages: by default this block uses snippets/show_messages.html
  • block content
  • block footer
• block after-bootstrap-js: used to run extra javascript like to enable Bootstrap Popovers. See below details

The registration/login.html is an example of page using base-template without sidebar.

Customize bootstrap theme

Install the package in dev mode is recommended if you want to customize the Bootstrap Theme. First clone this repo and install in dev mode:

pip install -e ./django-bootstrap-sidebar

Bootstrap static files and fonts are not included in the repo. They are generated/downloaded with the commands of makefile but the node environment and npm are required.

Bootstrap can be customized at file bootstrap-theme/custom.scss. An easy way to create a new customization is some online theme builder like https://bootstrap.build/ and download the custom.scss.

To generate/upgrade static files makefile automates the process, run make:

make

Enable Bootstrap Popovers

Due performance reasons popovers are not default enabled. One way is to enable popovers everywhere, which requires an extra javascript after the Bootstrap javascript. The last solution is not optimal, but it is a simple way, a detailed instructions are available at Bootstrap Popovers

The block after-bootstrap-js is intended to enable popovers and the following code snippet from Bootstrap can be used:

{% block after-bootstrap-js %}
<script>
const popoverTriggerList = document.querySelectorAll('[data-bs-toggle="popover"]')
const popoverList = [...popoverTriggerList].map(popoverTriggerEl => new bootstrap.Popover(popoverTriggerEl))
</script>
{% endblock %}

A full example is included in the example folder in page
popovers.html

License

The project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Author

Developed and maintained by Paulino Ruiz de Clavijo Vázquez pruiz@us.es