external-resources 0.5.0

Fetch and deploy external resources (CSS, JS, Fonts) for web services

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Installation

1. Install this package (as editable or from the repository) into your virtual environment.

2. Install invoke, create a tasks.py file in the root directory of your project and insert these lines:

   from external_resources.tasks import (
           get_resources,
           check_resource,
           deploy_resources,
           )

3. Create a file external_resources.yaml containing information about the external resources that you will be needing. An example is supplied with this package.

4. Create (or edit) the file invoke.yaml (in the same directory as tasks.py); it should specify the path of your external_resources.yaml registry and a list of resource names and optional version specifiers (like in a requirements file).

   Example:

   external_resources:
      required:
         -  bootstrap5
         -  bootstrap5_js
         -  htmx ~= 1.7
         -  lineawesome13 ~= 1.3
      config_file: external_resources.yaml
      dir_name: static_external

   The path to the config_file can either be an absolute path or relative to the directory of invoke.yaml.

   The dir_name option should point to a directory where the external resources will be installed (on your local host); depending on the kind of the resource they will go into subdirectories css, js, or fonts.

5. The invoke command

   inv get-resources

   will try to download the resources specified as required into the dir_name target directory.

   If the integrity check code for a resource is not known, the command

   inv check-resource NAME

   will calculate and display this code which then can be pasted into the registry to make sure the correct file was retrieved on a later download.

   With

   inv deploy-resources

   the resources from the local dir_name directory (and its subdirectories) will be rsync’ed to the target host specified by the target option in invoke.yaml.