Serve different Static files on devel and production in Django - django

Question

I have a production and local DJANGO development environment. To push things to production we have a deployer which minifies and gzips all CSS and JS files.
To serve them on production I need to call them like
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/filename.min.css.gz">
However on development I want the normal css file served (that way I don't have to re-minify and gzip each time I save) with:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/filename.css">
Is there any way to achieve and automatize this behaviour by adding something to the deployer?, is there some other work-around (I could get rid of the .min extension if it's possible to add the .gz in a clean way?
I want to note the I know I could implement some html-parser which adds it on each deploy but I'm looking for a neat and django oriented solution.

Answer 1

I like the #Nursultan idea. To enforce this you could code a context processor like this:
# On yourapp.context_processor.py
from django.conf import settings
def debug_set(request):
return {'debug_set': settings.DEBUG}
# On your settings.py
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
.
.
.
'yourapp.context_processors.debug_set',
)
# On your templates
{% if debug_set %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/filename.css">
{% else %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/filename.min.css.gz">
{% endif %}

Answer 2

As usual, there's a Django package for that! There are two I use:
django-compressor: http://django-compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
django-pipeline: https://django-pipeline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
I started on django-pipeline but have moved to using compressor as of late. See the docs, I believe one will be what you're looking for. Good luck!

Answer 3

I have never met this problem, but I come up with these two solutions:
Use different settings.py for production and development. But it requires to have the same names for *.min.js and change minifier's configuration.
Or use a global variable and write everywhere
{% if development_stage %}
<link>
{% else %}
<link>
{% endif %}
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