Django Static Revision

Django plugin to provide a context variable for retrieving the version of running application.

This variable is meant to change the URL of a static file, to invalidate browser cache.

Install

pip3 install dj-static-revision

Django Static Revision only supports Python 3.8+.

Usage

Add dj_static_revision.context_processors.static_revision to your context_processors list.

TEMPLATES = (
    {
        'NAME': 'jinja2',
        'BACKEND': 'django_jinja.backend.Jinja2',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': (
                # Other context processors
                'dj_static_revision.context_processors.static_revision',
            ),

A variable REVISION will then exists in your template, you can use it to append to static file URL.

<script src="{{ static('js/app.js') }}?v={{ REVISION }}"></script>

Django Static Revision retrieves revision string from Git history. If your source code is not managed by Git, the revision info will be read from a file named .version placed next to manage.py file.

Settings

The revision string will be truncated to 10 characters. You can change that by add to Django settings:

STATIC_REVISION_STRING_LENGTH = 10

You can also change the file for Django Static Revision to read revision string from, by add this setting:

STATIC_REVISION_VERSION_FILE = '.version'

where .version is a text file containing any string you want.