Question

How do you control version of your static files in Django? I wrote custom templatetag which adds the modification date as GET parameter of file URL, but would like to know – whether I’m doing.

Tag code:

import os

from django import template
from django.conf import settings


register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def sstatic(path):
    '''
    Returns absolute URL to static file with versioning.
    '''
    full_path = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, path)
    try:
        # Get file modification time.
        mtime = os.path.getmtime(full_path)
        return '%s%s?%s' % (settings.STATIC_URL, path, mtime)
    except OSError:
        # Returns normal url if this file was not found in filesystem.
        return '%s%s' % (settings.STATIC_URL, path)

Answer 1

Applications such as django-compressor, and django-pipeline are good for these sort of things.