Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically for Git users

If you don't want to refresh the browser cache each time you change your CSS and JavaScript files, or while styling images, you need to set STATIC_URL dynamically with a varying path component. With the dynamically changing URL, whenever the code is updated, the visitor's browser will force loading of all-new uncached static files. In this recipe, we will set a dynamic path for STATIC_URL when you use the Git version control system.

Getting ready

Make sure that your project is under the Git version control and you have BASE_DIR defined in your settings, as shown in the Defining relative paths in the settings recipe.

If you haven't done it yet, create the utils module in your Django project. Also, create ...