asset compression

[sakulstra]

Hay there,
i'm looking for sth. like http://django-pipeline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compressors.html for tinkerer.
Is there any option/plugin for asset compression?
Actually i never worked with sphinx or tinkerer, but i can't believe there is no such extension.

Thanks in advance,
Lukas

[vladris]

There currently isn't any plugin for Tinkerer (or Sphinx as far as I know, though I might be wrong). That being said, since this is all static, you should be able to easily run a post-build script on your output directory and compress things if needed. Or serve your static website through django with django-pipeline.

A plugin that does this automatically sounds like a good idea actually, though I don't know when I'll personally get around to implementing it. I'll leave this on the issue tracker though, maybe someone else wants to do it. Should be a post-build step that updates the css and js files in the output directory.

[sakulstra]

Hay @vladris,
thanks for ur answer - yeah i couldn't find sth. like that but I couldn't image that noone has tried this yet... there are huge documentations(like cakedocs) which could produce sth. like 30% less traffic with compressed sources :D
Actually I've no experience in python, so I wont be able to write a plugin, but mod_pagespeed seems to have some compression plugin build in. So that's no solution for people hosting on github, but for everyone who has low-level access(like on a vServer).
Regards,
Lukas

[vladris]

Well, if you're not serving from GitHub or another free host, you might as well set up the compression on the server you are using (you can totally serve a Tinkerer blog with Django for example). That being said, I agree an extension to do the compression after each build wouldn't be a bad idea if anyone wants to build one.

[sakulstra]

Just found this: https://webassets.readthedocs.org/en/latest/generic/index.html#quick-start , havn't tested it yet cause my python knowledge is so bad - but shouldn't be that hard to use it with sphinxlike systems. If i understood right, one could simply add all *.js and all *.css files inside _static/ to a bundle and run the compression.

[sakulstra]

I created a simple extension documented here:
http://sakulstra.github.io/blog/html/2015/04/18/asset_compression_in_tinkerer_and_sphinx.html
it's nor perfect at all :)