Optional asset fingerprinting?

[ghost]

Could this be made optional without a fork? I use s3_website to deploy my Hugo site and it simply sets cache headers during the CDN deployment, enabling instant cache invalidation without altering the structure of my static files.

[jbrodriguez]

without altering the structure of my static files
You mean in your case there's no need to replace assets references ?

I need to look at the code, the cascaded dependencies in gulp tasks may probably make this not exactly trivial. :)

[ghost]

You mean in your case there's no need to replace assets references ?

Correct. None whatsoever. CloudCannon and Siteleaf, Cloud CMS's for static sites, do the same transparent cache busting. Im not sure about Neflify, but I'd wager they're doing the same as a part of the deployment pipeline following builds. If I understand it correctly, adding the cache headers would be as simple as getting MD5 sum of the file contents (or SHA, in case of DCVS), and busting those assets with a new ETAG or Cache-Control headers at the CDN-level.

[jbrodriguez]

Nice!

I think I'll have some free time this weekend, so I'll work on hugulp a bit.

[a-schaefers]

May I ask how this is coming along? I came here wondering the same thing as jhabdas. Thanks.

[jbrodriguez]

Hi, I haven't been able to work on hugulp due to real life :)

I'll get back to it at the earliest possible.

[levidrain]

I'd like to be able to turn this off as well.
Also, doesn't hugo support reading git info. Couldn't this be more cleanly handled by hugo using a query string of the commit hash?

[jbrodriguez]

I'm currently thinking of a broader change to hugulp.

I've never liked the idea of having to install node/npm for these tasks, although the docker instance alleviates the issue.

There are some options using go as base and I'm looking into it.

I didn't quite catch what you meant with the git info + commit hash.

[ghost]

Have you looked at Mage for packages?

[jbrodriguez]

Thanks for the suggestion @JHabdas !

I understand you meant https://magefile.org/

It looked great until I read https://magefile.org/howitworks/

Seems you need the go environment in the end user system 😞

[ghost]

Yep. Could just like NPM requires Node. Docker is the solve.

[levidrain]

@jbrodriguez Sorry, I was thinking Hugo exposed the last commit for the repo, but it exposed the last commit for individual files. However, what if you did something like this:
<link href="/layout.css?{{ slicestr (readFile "static/layout.css" | md5) 0 10 }}" rel="stylesheet">

On the original subject of being able to turn off asset fingerprinting. I think this would make it possible to use hugulp to create themes. I think you could just treat your theme folder like a full site with content and such and then just exclude those folders (content, public, etc) from checkin. I might be missing something, but given hugo's strong separation of file types, I believe it would be possible.