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Hey #django people: I'm giving the long-nearly-dead Form.Media another go, and am wondering what people are doing for compression/minification.
I normally use django-compressor with offline compression in my projects, but that's no good with a dynamic collection of assets.
I really do like the concept of only including the JS and CSS snippets that I need for my currently rendered forms, though. What do?
@rixx @matthiask is your friend here. (As he is everywhere, but… 🥳)
I have a back log of reading of his wisdom to catch up on what you’re meant do here.
@carlton @matthiask Hmm, looking at https://406.ch/writing/how-i-m-bundling-frontend-assets-using-django-and-rspack-these-days/, my requirements are much simpler:
I don't need hot reloading or fancy importing. I don't even really need bundling, to be quite honest – the number of individual script files are rarely even reaching double digits, which in the age of HTTP/2 and <script defer> feels fine.
All I really want is for the script and js files that I do use to be whitespace-stripped (minification is fine, but tbh whitespace stripping is enough).
@rixx @matthiask I wonder if you even need that if you do something like `gzip enabled` with something like nginx 🤔
"dynamic collection": I'm wondering if you couldn't run this through compressor's "process but don't combine" flow, having the finder look for the processed file 🤔
/me walks away quickly.
@carlton Yeah, I keep thinking that with gzip/brotli on the wire, I might just get rid of compressor entirely. I should do some benchmarking, but it's such a hassle to set up.
A quick local test shows a simple ~120 line CSS file getting down from 2.7kB to 1.26kB just by sending it with whitenoise with proper compression enabled. It's 1.85kB with django-compressor and *no* transport compression added, and 1.12kB with both django-compressor and whitenoise/transport compression.
@carlton If this is representative, then I feel like the overhead isn't worth it tbh, but I should test this with some larger and complex js files …
@rixx a write up of your findings would be of general interest I’d reckon.
I’m still using compressor for the super simple preprocessing.
The actual compression bit is likely not that important now. Cache headers trump all of it.
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