Django Manifest Loader

Reads a manifest file to import your assets into a Django template. Find the URL for a single asset or the URLs for multiple assets by using pattern matching against the file names. Path resolution handled using Django's built-in staticfiles app. Minimal configuraton, cache-busting, split chunks.

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Turns this

{% load manifest %}
<script src="{% manifest 'main.js' %}"></script>

Into this

<script src="/static/main.8f7705adfa281590b8dd.js"></script>

• Official documentation
• For an in-depth look at this package, check out this blog post here
• Quick start blog post

Quick reference:

Manifest tag

{% load manifest %}

<script src="{% manifest 'main.js' %}"></script>

turns into

<script src="/static/main.8f7705adfa281590b8dd.js"></script>

Manifest match tag

{% load manifest %}

{% manifest_match '*.js' '<script src="{match}"></script>' %}

turns into

<script src="/static/vendors~main.3ad032adfa281590f2a21.js"></script>
<script src="/static/main.8f7705adfa281590b8dd.js"></script>

License

Django Manifest Loader is distributed under the 3-clause BSD license. This is an open source license granting broad permissions to modify and redistribute the software.