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pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. It's roughly similar to macOS's brew, JavaScript's npx, and Linux's apt. It's closely related to pip. In fact, it uses pip, but is focused on installing and managing Python packages that can be run from the command line directly as applications. pip is a general-purpose package installer for both libraries and apps with no environment isolation. pipx is made specifically for application installation, as it...

...Whalebrew makes those things work with Docker, too. Whalebrew can run almost any CLI tool, but it isn't for everything (e.g. where commands must start instantly). It works particularly well for a Python app that requires C libraries, specific package versions, and other CLI tools that you don't want to clutter up your machine with. Package managers tend to be very closely tied to the system they are running on. Whalebrew packages work on any modern version of macOS, Linux, and Windows.

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...