Add version to static files in production#1513
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It is actually a bad idea to override the template tag. There are custom storage classes for this. ManifestStaticFilesStorage would also be an idea, but would also have the same issues as whitenoise. |
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we don't have a if settings.DEBUG check anywhere in rdmo yet, should this not go in the rdmo-app?
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No, I think its fine. settings.DEBUG is pretty low-level django. So far we did not need it.
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When running locally, |
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This PR overwrites the regular Django
statictemplate tag to add the current RDMO version (ifDEBUG = False). The result is that clients will drop the cached files when the version changes (aka. cache busting). There are some remarks around to not use query params for this (pointing to https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/), but I don't think this is relevant for us.We might to switch to [whitenoise}(https://whitenoise.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) at some point, but we need to fix our JS and CSS pipeline first and get rid of compressor.