# jazzband/django-pipeline

Pipeline is an asset packaging library for Django.

Repository: https://github.com/jazzband/django-pipeline
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-pipeline
Homepage: https://django-pipeline.readthedocs.io/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-15T05:10:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 29, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5570, "days_push": 18, "days_rel": 261, "gap_med": 374, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1540, forks 367 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:00.534673+00:00)

## What it is
django-pipeline is an asset packaging library for Django that concatenates and compresses CSS and JavaScript files during collectstatic. It also supports JavaScript templating and optional data-URI embedding of images and fonts.

## Use cases
- bundle multiple css files into one stylesheet in django
- minify and concatenate javascript for a django site
- compress static assets when running collectstatic
- embed images and fonts as data uris in css
- integrate external compilers and compressors like yuglify into django asset pipeline

## When to choose
- you have a Django project with server-rendered templates needing asset bundling
- you want asset compression integrated with Django's staticfiles framework
- you prefer a Django-native alternative to external bundlers like webpack

## When to avoid
- you use a modern SPA frontend with its own bundler like webpack or vite
- your project is not Django-based
- you need hot module replacement or a dev server with live asset rebuilding

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: build-tool, compression, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: python
- tags: django, asset-pipeline, css, javascript, minification, static-files, web-server

## Member repositories
- jazzband/django-pipeline (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.534673+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:51.296072+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jazzband/django-pipeline (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.534673+00:00, sha 8ad7b5141000)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-pipeline/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:32:54.816103+00:00, sha af166f14cc46)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.