Open Source Python Package Managers for ChromeOS

django-bower is a Django app that lets you manage your front-end dependencies using Bower right from your Django project. Instead of manually dropping JavaScript and CSS libraries into your static folders, you declare them as Bower packages and let the app install them to a known location. It then provides Django settings and template tags to point STATICFILES_DIRS or STATIC_ROOT to those installed components. This keeps the back-end and front-end dependency story unified, versioned, and repeatable across environments. It’s especially useful for teams that used Bower-era front-end stacks and wanted to keep Django projects tidy and deployable. The app focuses on being predictable, configurable, and compatible with Django’s staticfiles pipeline.

import_from_github_com is a playful yet practical experiment that lets you import Python modules directly from GitHub using an import-like mechanism. The idea is to remove the friction of “clone → install → import” when you just want to try out a single file or small repo. It hooks into Python’s import machinery so that when you reference a GitHub path, it fetches the code, stores it locally (often with caching), and makes it importable in the current environment. This is helpful for prototyping, teaching, or quickly exploring other people’s utilities without polluting your global site-packages. It also demonstrates how flexible Python’s import system is and can be used as a reference for custom importers. While not a substitute for proper packaging, it’s a clever shortcut for rapid experimentation.