bootstrap.rst

Using Bootstrap

The django-plotly-dash package is frequently used with the dash-bootstrap-components package, and this requires a number of steps to set up correctly.

This section is a checkist of the required confiuration steps.

• install the package as descrbed in the :ref:`installation <installation>` section
• add the various settings in the :ref:`configuration <configuration>` section, particularly the STATICFILES_FINDERS, PLOTLY_COMPONENTS and MIDDLEWARE ones.
• install django-bootstrap 4 with pip install django-bootstrap4 and add bootstrap4 to INSTALLED_APPS in the project's settings.py file
• make sure that the settings for serving static files are set correctly, particularly STATIC_ROOT, as described in the Django documentation
• use the prepare_demo script or perform the equivalent steps, paricularly the migrate and collectstatic steps
• make sure add_bootstrap_links=True is set for apps using dash-bootstrap-components
• the Django documentation deployment section covers setting up the serving of static files for production