This is sort of a complex question so it will take a bit to explain. I’m not looking for a direct answer so any advice would be good. I have a Django app that uses a lot of CoffeeScript. To compile the CoffeeScript in the project I am using the app django-compressor. To use django-compressor I need to install nmp (node package manager). Unfortunately, I can’t install npm on Heroku. Thus, I need to compile the CoffeeScript before it hits the Heroku servers. So I did that by setting up Fabric which is seeming to work well.
I am running into a problem no because I can get the compiled CoffeeScript as a static file but the templates still have the {% compress js %} *** {% endcompress %} tags in them because django-compressor does not regenerate new templates until run time.
Thus I am looking for advice on how to deploy the app to get ride of the template tags so that the app can be deployed on Heroku. I know it is a question with a lot of parts so any piece of advice would be super helpful!
I realize it’s quite an old question – hit it occasionally
Just in case, here’s the way to deal:
http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage/#pre-compression
http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/scenarios/#offline-compression