Django Assetfiles

Django Assetfiles is a drop-in replacement for staticfiles which handles asset processing.

Installation

1. Install package from PyPi:

   $ pip install django-assetfiles

2. Replace 'django.contrib.staticfiles' in INSTALLED_APPS with 'assetfiles':

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       # ...
       # 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
       'assetfiles',
   )

3. That's it! Assetfiles will default to your Staticfiles settings.

Usage

1. Add an asset file that should be processed:

    // static/css/main.scss
    $color: red;
   
    body {
      color: $color;
    }

2. Add a link to the processed CSS file in your template (you can use standard Staticfiles conventions):

   {% load staticfiles %}
   <link href="{% static 'css/main.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">

   Assetfiles will automatically serve up the processed version of main.scss at the static url of /static/css/main.css.

3. To serve assets in development, either use runserver as normal or add the following to your urls.py:

   from assetfiles.urls import assetfiles_urlpatterns
   
   # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
   
   urlpatterns += assetfiles_urlpatterns()

4. For deployment, run collectstatic as usual and Assetfiles will process and copy over the assets:

   $ python manage.py collectstatic
   $ cat public/css/main.css
   body {
     color: red; }

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 LocalMed, Inc.. See LICENSE for details.