How to resolve static files from templates?

[mihalt]

Hi! Thanks for loader. But I haven't understood yet how to resolve static files from django templates. For example
<img src="{% static "img/tmp/ava.png" %}" width="50" height="50" alt="Avatar">

After using of webpack this image can have the name on output like 123456.png. So I thinked, that if I use webpack_static tag it will work, but it didn't want. May be I do something wrong?

[fjsj]

This is an old issue, but I'll reply here for reference to others, as we're the new maintainers of the project:

webpack_static is basically static that looks first for publicPath and goes to STATIC_URL as a fallback.

Note that this will get the "original" asset, without having passed through any webpack optimization. If we wanted to get an asset that passed through webpack (with a random string as the name), it's not currently possible (this was discussed in PR 90 as well). We'd have to update both packages to allow some form of mapping on the stats file (i.e.: inform in the stats file that foo.png produced 649243593-i.png), although this could be tricky for assets that get splitted into multiple files.

We'll track this in another issue. Closing this one.