django-compressor is also popular: https://pypi.org/project/django-compressor/
IMO we should not include anything in Django since JavaScript is a separate language, and they have much better tools for minification and bundling, and these tools can move faster than and orthogonally to Django. And there are many options: Webpack, Parcel, Gulp, Grunt, Rollup, .. On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 10:06, quest...@gmail.com <questpc...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is CSS / Javascript merge and compress package for Python: > https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets > which supports Django, Flask, Pyramid. > > See also: > > https://www.slideshare.net/__amol__/pyconit7-dukpy-webassets-free-yourself-from-nodejs-chains > https://pypi.org/project/dukpy/ > https://gist.github.com/amol-/0fd016bbb0c6c9a0fb6ab5bbedfcb7ad > https://github.com/rclmenezes/webassets-rollup > > > On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 5:03:54 AM UTC+3 arvind...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> I kinda like the idea of being able to run collectstatic and not have to >> worry about setting up a full on frontend workflow for pretty much just >> minification. It is a great default to have when this is all you need. >> >> That said, I’d be more interested in seeing something like an official or >> a django-blessed unofficial default option similar to the sprokects-rails >> gem for ruby. Allowing for a much more flexible and extensive frontend >> pipeline without having to rely on an external task runner. >> >> On 22 Dec 2020, at 7:24, Diptesh Choudhuri wrote: >> >> The default files copied to STATIC_ROOT when you run python manage.py >> collectstatic should have two versions- file.js and file.min.js (similarly >> for css files). As far as I can see, this happens only for the preinstalled >> apps (like admin/actions.min.js) but not for user installed apps. >> Serbing minified static files is important for all production >> environments for pretty much everyone who uses vanilla django. Though there >> are packages out there to do this, I feel it is important enough and has >> enough use cases to be added to the django core. >> >> I can start working on this if it is accepted. >> Let me know what you think! >> >> Best >> Diptesh Choudhuri >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5bcb1522-3486-452e-b061-2cce2bb6d2c9n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5bcb1522-3486-452e-b061-2cce2bb6d2c9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/b4ee304c-6861-417c-a20c-bf79b5e2d9efn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/b4ee304c-6861-417c-a20c-bf79b5e2d9efn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM2xcYM9M1AB-ZK47V4JHH0mNoYvXntz8-wrbzxdOJ1QFg%40mail.gmail.com.