Installation
Install the package:
$ pip install pyramid_webassets
EITHER add it to your Pyramid production.ini
and development.ini
:
pyramid.includes =
pyramid_debugtoolbar
pyramid_tm
pyramid_webassets
OR include it when configuring your application, usually in __init__.py
:
def main(global_config, **settings):
...
config.include('pyramid_webassets')
Configuration
You are required to set base_dir
and base_url
, the rest are optional,
but we currently support:
base_dir
: The directory to output and search for assetsbase_url
: The url static assets will be locateddebug
: If webassets should be in debug mode (i.e no compression)updater
: Different update configurations (i.e always, timestamp)cache
: If we should use webassets cache (if boolean), or override default path to cache directoryjst_compiler
: A custom jst compiler, by default it uses underscoreurl_expire
: If a cache-busting query string should be added to URLsstatic_view
: If assets should be registered as a static view using Pyramid config.add_static_view()cache_max_age
: If static_view is true, this is passed as the static view's cache_max_age argument (allowing control of expires and cache-control headers)paths
: A JSON dictionary of PATH=URL mappings to add paths to alternative asset locations (URL
can be null to only add the path)bundles
: filename or [asset-spec] (or a list of either) (http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/glossary.html#term-asset-specification) of a YAML bundle spec whose bundles will be auto-registered
webassets.base_dir = %(here)s/app/static
webassets.base_url = static
webassets.debug = True
webassets.updater = timestamp
webassets.cache = False
webassets.jst_compiler = Handlebars.compile
webassets.url_expire = False
webassets.static_view = True
webassets.cache_max_age = 3600
webassets.bundles = mypackage:webassets.yaml
Then you can just use config.add_webasset to add bundles to your environment
from webassets import Bundle
jst = Bundle('templates/*.html',
filters='jst',
output='js/jst.js', debug=False)
config.add_webasset('jst', jst)
All other configurations are passed through to webassets, including
filter settings. These are adjusted as follows: if a value is exactly
true
or false
, then it is converted to a boolean; if a value
is prefixed with the string json:
, then it is JSON-parsed. This
allows pyramid-webassets to handle basic extensible filter
configurations without needing any python code, for example:
webassets.less_run_in_debug = true
webassets.less_extra_args = json:["--line-numbers=mediaquery", "-O2"]
Use asset specs instead of files and urls
It's possible to use an asset specifications (package:file) instead of simple file names.
- If the asset specifications declares a path outside the base_dir, the file will be copied.
- Otherwise, it will work like a normal bundle file.
If files are bundled from other packages and those packages act like pyramid
plugins adding their own add_static_view
, webassets will use those static
view urls to show the individual files if needed (for example, in development mode).
If you have defined your own static route and you want to use it with webassets, for example:
config.add_static_view('static-stuff', 'my.super.app:static')
Setting the base url configuration option to an asset specification:
base_url = my.super.app:static
Will make webassets use the /static-stuff
route for your assets. Note:
the absolute or relative path depends on where is your application is deployed.
Use with templates
Included are helpers that you can use with your templates. Additional helpers are documented below in the section labeled "Extras".
Mako
You can use the global webassets tag:
% for url in webassets(request, 'css/bootstrap.css', 'css/bootstrap-responsive.css', output='css/generated.css', filters='cssmin'):
<link href="${url}" rel="stylesheet">
% endfor
or you can grab the environment from the request.
Jinja2
If you are using Jinja2, you can just do the following configuration (this assumes use of pyramid_jinja2):
config.add_jinja2_extension('webassets.ext.jinja2.AssetsExtension')
assets_env = config.get_webassets_env()
jinja2_env = config.get_jinja2_environment()
jinja2_env.assets_environment = assets_env
and then:
{% assets "jst" %}
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ ASSET_URL }}"></script>
{% endassets %}
Generic
It's always possible to access the environment from the request.
jst_urls = request.webassets_env['jst'].urls()
Extras
There are a few more utility methods you can use to make working with webassets within your Pyramid application easier.
Configuration
These methods can be called on the Configurator
instance during startup:
add_webasset(name, bundle)
: Registers a bundle with webassets
add_webassets_setting(key, value)
: Update the environment configuration
add_webassets_path(path, url)
: Append a URL mapping to the environment
get_webassets_env_from_settings(settings, prefix='static_assets')
: Pass a
dictionary of your settings and an optional keyword argument of the prefix in
your configuration and it will return a webassets environment.
get_webassets_env()
: This will pull the environment out of the registry.
Request handling
These properties and helpers are attached to the Request
object:
request.webassets_env
: Access the webassets environment
request.webassets(*bundle_names, **kwargs)
: Build the named bundles.
Keyword arguments will be passed to webassets to influence bundling.
Building assets from a script
The webassets
module includes a command line script, also called webassets
,
which can be used to build bundles offline. When integrating with Pyramid, it
can be helpful to bootstrap the environment using paster instead, like so:
import pyramid.paster
import webassets.script
app_env = pyramid.paster.bootstrap('config.ini')
assets_env = app_env['request'].webassets_env
webassets.script.main(['build'], assets_env)