https://github.com/ross/webassets-dynamic

helper module to allow you to use webassets with django.views.static.serve
https://github.com/ross/webassets-dynamic

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helper module to allow you to use webassets with django.views.static.serve

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ross/webassets-dynamic
• Owner: ross
• Created: 2011-05-10T17:51:24.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-03-30T20:25:02.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-21T19:42:12.261Z (12 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 98.6 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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webassets-dynamic is a library to allow you to use webassets with django

projects where django.views.static.serve is in use. This is common when static

files live in and are served out of shared "apps."

If your django app or its dependencies (django apps in those deps) have url

rules like the following, this is what you need.

    url(r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',

        {'document_root': join(dirname(__file__), 'static')}, name='static')

The module provides a single extral function dynamic_assets. It accepts two

parameters. The first is the static view's name ('static' in the above rule.)

The second parameter is the location of the file within the static-directory,

the same as you'd use when creating a url.

Generally this module is set up to manually create and check-in the bundled

files. To do that you'll just run the normal ./manage.py assets rebuild and then

check in the results.

You will need to configure the following values in your settings.py:

    # where you want to place the resulting output

    ASSETS_ROOT = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'skin/static/')

    # the uri at which ^^ is served (can't dynamically get this b/c there may be

    # multiple statics)

    STATIC_URL = '/static/'

    # do not automatically update the packaged assets at runtime (they'll only

    # be creatd when you run ./manage.py assets rebuild) generating them on the

    # fly might work, but it's currently untested/not supported.

    ASSETS_UPDATER = False

    # by default set ASSETS_DEBUG to DEBUG, meaning that when we're in debug

    # mode we'll get the expanded list of individual js/css files with their

    # dynamic paths.

    ASSETS_DEBUG = DEBUG

An example assets.py using this module follows:

    from django_assets import Bundle, register

    from webassets_dynamic import dynamic_assets

    from os.path import join

    register('js_all', Bundle(

        dynamic_assets('sharedappjs', 'js/jquery.min.js'),

        dynamic_assets('sharedappjs', 'js/log.js'),

        dynamic_assets('static', 'js/app.js'),

        filters=['jsmin'], output=join('js', 'js_all.js')))

    register('css_all', Bundle(

        dynamic_assets('static', 'css/screen.css'),

        filters=['cssrewrite', 'cssmin'],

        output=join('css', 'css_all.css')))