Django Static Stuff

Handling the Un-Django Parts of Your Django App

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1. STATIC STUFF Handling the Un-Django Parts of Your Django App Matthew Tretter @matthewwithanm m@tthewwithanm.com github.com/matthewwithanm http://speakerdeck.com/matthewwithanm/django-static-stuff
2. Photo by Jeff Prouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/prousefamily/426140767/ Static files used to be a small problem for Django devs
3. Photo by John R. Southern http://www.flickr.com/photos/krunkwerke/267608325 Now, they’re a much larger problem
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9. Photo by Brin F http://thumbsandammo.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post_4297.html
10. ⃠ {% load static %}
11. def static(path): return settings.STATIC_URL + path
12. {% load staticfiles %}
13. {% load static from staticfiles %}
14. {% load static from staticfiles %} Delegates to STATICFILES_STORAGE
15. main.css main.af42991c673a.css Wow, this slide is boring. CachedStaticFilesStorage CachedFilesMixin
16. You can’t tell your users to clear their cache Far-future FTW Safer deployments Photo by patriziasoliani http://www.flickr.com/photos/55524309@N05/5378314720/
17. Why not django-compressor?
18. input defined in templates doesn’t know about dependency graphs only for js & css
19. Embrace the build step Photo by Phyllis Buchanan http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgautier/2598157781/
20. 1.Collect the static files from all apps into temporary location 2.Perform the build 3.Collect the built files Photo by Spencer Garness http://www.flickr.com/photos/njorthr/4030750472/
22. sass/lessc coffee uglify.js csso Photo by Toni http://www.flickr.com/photos/toniandmatthew/5212240990/
23. sass/lessc coffee uglify.js csso Photo by Toni http://www.flickr.com/photos/toniandmatthew/5212240990/ r.js jpegtran pngcrush svgo
24. sass/lessc coffee uglify.js csso r.js jpegtran pngcrush svgo ANYTHING It’s still the same photo
25. Can we do better? Yeah, still. Sorry.
26. Embrace Django
27. Photo by Brin F. But it’s slightly different than before! No it’s not. http://thumbsandammo.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post_4297.html
28. generate & consume static file manifests tweak post-processing improve collection
29. TL;DL
30. {% load staticfiles %}
31. Hashes in Filenames
32. Embrace the build step
33. Build on staticfiles app
34. Thanks http://speakerdeck.com/matthewwithanm/django-static-stuff https://gist.github.com/matthewwithanm/5969795 Matthew Tretter @matthewwithanm m@tthewwithanm.com github.com/matthewwithanm