无法添加Django-Assets / Webassets目录以查找assets.py文件

Question

Was looking for a Python package for Django to manage assets, using Sass to compile CSS, and also cache busting, and Django-Assets / Webassets was recommended. Having trouble getting it setup though with my directory structure.

By default it looks for assets.py in each installed app. I want to set it up so that it sits in the same directory as settings.py and compiles app specific assets from each app directory into /static/js and /static/css .

I have django_assets in INSTALLED_APPS . According to the docs it looks like I needed to add this to settings.py :

ASSETS_MODULES = [
   'project_dir',
]

Or:

ASSETS_MODULES = [
   os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'project_dir'),
]

Or:

ASSETS_MODULES = [
   PROJECT_ROOT
]

At any rate, it just returns No asset bundles were found. If you are defining assets directly within your template, you want to use the --parse-templates option. No asset bundles were found. If you are defining assets directly within your template, you want to use the --parse-templates option.

Even moving the assets.py into one of the app directories, it is looking in BASE_DIR/scripts which is where I keep my manage.py . Again, changing ASSETS_ROOT doesn't really same to be doing anything.

~/portal-client

project_dir
    apps
        account
            templates
                account
                    login.html
            forms.py
            urls.py
            views.py
        home
            templates
                home
                    home.html
            urls.py
            views.py
        results
    assets.py
    settings.py
    urls.py
scripts
    manage.py
static
templates
    base.html
    footer.html
    title.html

Answer 1

Couple of quick notes, for ASSETS_MODULES , the key word is additional:

django-assets will automatically look for assets.py files in each application, where you can register your bundles. If you want additional modules to be loaded, you can define this setting. It expects a list of importable modules:

ie, we only use ASSETS_MODULES if we have assets.py files outside of any application. In your case, we will only specify this if project_dir is not an INSTALLED_APP .

Second, when using ASSETS_MODULES , you specify a dotted module path, not a directory. In your case, this would be project_dir.assets only if project_dir is not already part of INSTALLED_APPS .