Compress/combine our CSS and JavaScript files.
Review Request #2656 — Created Oct. 12, 2011 and submitted
Compress/combine our CSS and JavaScript files. For too long, we've had many verbose CSS and JavaScript files on production systems, which affected load time. We didn't have a good system in place for minifying/combining files. Now we use django-compress, which is a pretty awesome little module that allows you to easily define packages of CSS/JavaScript files. When DEBUG is on, the original files will be used in the templates, but when off, the minified versions will be used. django-compress will generally try to minify on demand if it doesn't find the files, but we make sure to build these files as part of the packaging operations. This ensures that our users will have the proper minified versions. The next step will be to add a new CSS filter class that processes lessCSS files. I'll be adding this to Djblets as a utility filter for django-compress, and then begin porting to less.
Tested each affected page in both compressed mode and debug mode. Everything looked and acted correctly from what I can tell. This could stand some dog-fooding, though, and some scripts (diffviewer.js, for example) always assumed it was in its proper page before.
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It would be cool if this could process directly into build/. |
david |