I have followed the guide of setting up the django compressor from flowbite docs and the official ones.
However is i move the link tag with my tailwind output file inside the compressor tags it throws TemplateDoesNotExist. I cannot figure out what is wrong. If i change the paths it cannot locate the file at all - so i quess the paths are correct.
I can also see that it generates a cache folder inside my static dirs
Here is the relevant sections from settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'core.apps.CoreConfig',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'compressor'
]
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates'],
'APP_DIRS': False,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "frontend/static")]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static_root")
STATICFILES_FINDERS = ('django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder',)
COMPRESS_ENABLED = True
COMPRESS_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "frontend/static")
and my test.html page:
{% load static %}
{% load compress %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
{% compress css %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style.css">
{% endcompress %}
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flowbite/2.2.1/flowbite.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
this is the folder structure from root:
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I followed docs but cannot get the compressor to work