在Django上的js / css文件上使用Gzip

Question

I know that it's better to use something like AWS for static files but I am on developing stage and I prefer to have javascript/css files on localhost.

It would be great if I could get gzip working on my javascript files for testing. I am using the default gzip middleware but it's just compressing the view request.

My template looks like:

<script src='file.js' type='application/javascript'></script>

There should be a type-of-file list similar to Nginx for the django-based-server. How can I add application/javascript, text/javascript, etc for gzip compression?

Answer 1

You should read the GZipMiddleware documentation, where it's explained that the middleware will not compress responses when the "Content-Type header contains javascript or starts with anything other than text/".

EDIT:

To clarify what the documentation says, if the Content-Type header value contains javascript or doesn't begin with text/ , then the response won't be compressed. That means both text/javascript and application/javascript will be invalid responses, since they match javascript .

Those restrictions are intentionally imposed by the middleware itself, but you can still circumvent that by wrapping the static files view handler with the gzip_page() decorator and adding it to your URL configuration manually.

Answer 2

During development you are using the Django built-in webserver, this server is really simple and does not have any other options than what you can see with ./manage.py help runserver

You options are either to setup a real webserver or use the staticfiles app with a custom StaticFilesStorage

But honestly, this is overkill, why would want to test gzip compression?