README: make new section for asset management

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Will Roberts 7 years ago
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      {{cookiecutter.app_name}}/README.rst

@ -40,23 +40,6 @@ database tables and perform the initial migration ::
flask db upgrade
flask run
Files placed inside the ``assets`` directory and its subdirectories
will be copied by webpack's ``file-loader`` into the ``static/build``
directory, with hashes of their contents appended to their names. For
instance, if you have the file ``assets/img/favicon.ico``, this will
get copied into something like
``static/build/img/favicon.fec40b1d14528bf9179da3b6b78079ad.ico``.
You can then put this line into your header::
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ "{{" }}asset_url_for('img/favicon.ico') {{ "}}" }}">
to refer to it inside your HTML page. If all of your assets are
managed this way, you can ask Flask to tell web browsers that they
should cache your static files forever by including the following line
in your ``settings.py``::
SEND_FILE_MAX_AGE_DEFAULT = 31556926 # one year
Deployment
----------
@ -103,3 +86,26 @@ This will generate a new migration script. Then run ::
To apply the migration.
For a full migration command reference, run ``flask db --help``.
Asset Management
----------------
Files placed inside the ``assets`` directory and its subdirectories
(excluding ``js`` and ``css``) will be copied by webpack's
``file-loader`` into the ``static/build`` directory, with hashes of
their contents appended to their names. For instance, if you have the
file ``assets/img/favicon.ico``, this will get copied into something
like
``static/build/img/favicon.fec40b1d14528bf9179da3b6b78079ad.ico``.
You can then put this line into your header::
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ "{{" }}asset_url_for('img/favicon.ico') {{ "}}" }}">
to refer to it inside your HTML page. If all of your static files are
managed this way, then their filenames will change whenever their
contents do, and you can ask Flask to tell web browsers that they
should cache all your assets forever by including the following line
in your ``settings.py``::
SEND_FILE_MAX_AGE_DEFAULT = 31556926 # one year

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