Customizations¶
This page outlines the basics of customizing Pegasus to meet your application’s needs.
Personalize your landing page¶
Pegasus ships with a stub landing page, however most projects will want to highly customize their landing page. Unless you are planning on building a marketing site on a different platform, this is likely one of the first things you’ll do.
To modify the default landing page, simply edit the ./apps/web/templates/web/landing_page.html file
and make any customizations you like.
If you want to start from Pegasus’s example landing page, then just copy the contents of
./pegasus/apps/examples/templates/pegasus/examples/example_landing_page.html into the landing page file.
Update the logged-in experience¶
After you’ve tweaked your landing page, you’ll likely want to dive into the nuts and bolts that make up your app.
To modify the logged-in default page, edit the ./apps/web/templates/web/app_home.html file to your liking.
Python Packages¶
You’ll inevitably want to add new Python packages to your project.
Pegasus uses pip tools to manage Python dependencies.
This allows for more explicit dependency management than a standard requirements.txt file.
You can install pip tools by running pip install pip-tools or pip install -r requirements/dev-requirements.txt.
Then, to add/modify your requirements, edit requirements/requirements.in with the new package and run:
pip-compile requirements/requirements.in
pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt
If you are using Docker in development, you’ll also have to rebuild your containers.
Styles¶
Customizing styles requires setting up the front-end build pipeline.
This project uses Bulma’s styles by default. Bulma is very easy to customize to your needs, though you can always drop Bulma for your preferred CSS framework.
Then to change styles, edit the generated site.scss file in assets/styles with any custom styles you want
and run this command to rebuild them:
npm run build # or "dev" or "dev-watch"
As a simple, impactful change to get started, you can set the following variable to change the primary color/theme across the site:
$primary: #2e7636; // change primary color to green