Config for allowing .scss files with dependencies

[k-funk]

This issue was posted in django-compressor. I'm not sure which library would be best to provide this support.

The problem is that I can't use a variables.scss separate from other dependencies.
I've got around this by using a main.css and lots of @imports in there, which works just fine and is clean enough to me, but django-compressor doesn't notice when files other than main.scss are changed, requiring a server-restart for any scss that were @imported.

Webassets solved this by setting a SASS_AS_OUTPUT flag that concats files before processing them.

Do you think it's best solved in django-compressor or here?

[gasman]

Hi @k-funk,
If I'm not mistaken, the only time django-compressor checks for changes to source files is when you have the precompiler listed in COMPRESS_CACHEABLE_PRECOMPILERS - and the docs tell you not to use this for SASS compilers, for exactly this reason.

The default behaviour without COMPRESS_CACHEABLE_PRECOMPILERS is to recompile everything on every request - which sounds inefficient, but I haven't found it to be a problem. (libsass is quite fast, and invoking it as a library rather than an external program helps to reduce overheads too.) In production, offline compression is the best way to go (although COMPRESS_CACHEABLE_PRECOMPILERS would probably work nicely there, as you won't be changing files between server restarts).

Either way, I think this is out of scope for django-libsass - django-libsass just follows django-compressor's precompiler API, and compiles whatever files django-compressor tells it to.

[k-funk]

Thanks for the response. Didn't know that the default behavior is to recompile everything, which led me to discover that having COMPRESS_ENABLED = True was the reason that my application wasn't recompiling with each request.