django-static-precompiler 2.4

Django Static Precompiler

Django Static Precompiler provides template tags and filters to compile CoffeeScript, LiveScript, SASS / SCSS, LESS, Stylus, Babel and Handlebars. It works with both inline code and external files.

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://django-static-precompiler.readthedocs.io.

Install

pip install django-static-precompiler

Use in templates

{% load compile_static %}
{% load static %}

<script src="{% static "path/to/script.coffee"|compile %}"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "path/to/styles1.less"|compile %}" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "path/to/styles2.scss"|compile %}" />

Use in Python

>>> from static_precompiler.utils import compile_static
>>> compile_static("styles.scss")
"COMPILED/styles.css"

Python & Django compatibility

Changelog

2.4

Deprecation

• Ruby-based Sass compiler is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0

New

• Added support for Dart Sass, see documentation on how to enable it. Dart Sass will become the default Sass compiler starting from 3.0

Bugfixes

• Fix the bug with a greedy regex in the URL converter

Misc

• Ensure compatibility with the latest versions of compilers:
  • coffeescript@2.7.0 (may break compatibility with older versions)
  • livescript@1.6.0
  • less@4.1.3
  • handlebars@4.7.7

2.3

• Fix incorrect source map URL with libsass

2.2

• Add support for Django 4.1

2.1

• Drop Python 3.5 support
• Drop Django 1.x support
• Add support for Django 4.0

2.0

• Drop Python 2.x support
• Add support for Django 3.0 and 3.1

1.8.2

• Add clean_css option to LESS compiler
• Fix URL converter to properly handle url(..) not followed directly by ;

1.8.1

• Fix setup.py to add compatibility with Python 3.4 and below.

1.8

• Remove deprecated settings: COFFEESCRIPT_EXECUTABLE, SCSS_EXECUTABLE, SCSS_USE_COMPASS, LESS_EXECUTABLE
• Add --ignore-dependencies option to compilestatic command
• Add --delete-stale-files option to compilestatic command

1.7.1

• Bugfix: properly handle the URLs containing parenthesis or quotes

1.7

• Prevent detection of imports in comments (SCSS)
• Add support for Django 2.0

1.6

• Add support for Django 1.11
• Drop support for Django 1.6
• Add include_path option to LESS compiler
• Take account of load_paths option when doing inline compilation with libsass
• Bugfix: take account of additional compiler options when doing inline compilation with SASS

1.5

• Add support for Django 1.10 and Python 3.5
• Improve support for load_paths setting in SCSS/SASS compilers.

1.4

• Fix the run_command utility function to rely on process return code rather than stderr to determine if compilation has finished successfully. WARNING! Changes in run_command are backward incompatible. If you use this function in your custom compiler you should update your code.

1.3.1

• Add support for --presets option in Babel compiler. See babel-cli [options <https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/options/>]{.title-ref} for more information.

1.3

• Fix Stylus compiler to actually enable support for detecting changes in imported files
• Add precision option to SASS / SCSS / LibSass compilers. Set it to 8 or more if you compile Bootstrap.
• Add output_style option to SASS / SCSS / LibSass compilers.
• Enable verbose output for compilestatic management command

1.2

• Add LiveScript compiler
• Add support for --global-var option in LESS compiler
• Add SCSS / SASS compiler based on Libsass

1.1

• Add source maps support for SASS/SCSS
• Add source maps support for LESS
• Add source maps support for CoffeeScript
• Add source maps support for Stylus
• Add source maps support for Babel
• Add Handlebars compiler
• Add support for Django 1.9
• Add plugins parameter to Babel compiler
• Add load_paths parameter to SASS/SCSS compilers

1.0.1

• Add modules parameter to Babel compiler
• Allow to install Watchdog with pip install django-static-precompiler[watch]

1.0

• Add compile template filter
• Deprecate {% compile %} template tag
• The following compiler specific template tags are REMOVED:
  • {% coffeescript %}
  • {% inlinecoffeescript %}
  • {% sass %}
  • {% inlinesass %}
  • {% scss %}
  • {% inlinescss %}
  • {% less %}
  • {% inlineless %}
• Add Stylus compiler

0.9

• Compiler options are specified with STATIC_PRECOMPILER_COMPILERS setting.
• The following settings are DEPRECATED:
  • COFFEESCRIPT_EXECUTABLE
  • SCSS_EXECUTABLE
  • SCSS_USE_COMPASS
  • LESS_EXECUTABLE
• -C (--no-cache) flag is removed from SASS/SCSS compilers
• Add STATIC_PRECOMPILER_LIST_FILES setting
• Add Babel compiler

0.8

• Add {% inlinecompile %} template tag
• The following compiler specific template tags are DEPRECATED:
  • {% coffeescript %}
  • {% inlinecoffeescript %}
  • {% sass %}
  • {% inlinesass %}
  • {% scss %}
  • {% inlinescss %}
  • {% less %}
  • {% inlineless %}
• Use Django 1.7 migrations
• BUGFIX: fix sass imports from scss and vice versa
• BUGFIX: make sure that compilestatic works if watchdog isn't installed.
• BUGFIX: fix compilation error when dependency file was removed or renamed

0.7

• Add compilestatic management command (replaces static_precompiler_watch)
• Add STATIC_PRECOMPILER_DISABLE_AUTO_COMPILE to settings
• Add STATIC_PRECOMPILER_CACHE_NAME to settings
• Bugfixes

0.6

• Add STATIC_PRECOMPILER_PREPEND_STATIC_URL to settings
• Add {% compile %} template tag

0.5.3

• Update the parsing of @import statements. Fix the bug with URLs containing commas.

0.5.2

• static_precompiler_watch: watch for changes in all directories handled by static finders, not only STATIC_ROOT
• static_precompiler_watch: add --no-initial-scan option

0.5.1

• Fix SCSS compilation error when importing Compass styles

0.5

• Add Python 3 support

0.4

• Add compile_static and compile_static_lazy utility functions.

0.3

• Bug fixes
• Add Windows compatibility

0.2

• Reduce the max length of varchar fields in Dependency model to meet MySQL limitations
• static_precompiler_watch: don't fall with exception on compilation errors or if source file is not found

0.1

• Initial release