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webassets
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Asset management application for Python web development - use it to merge and compress your JavaScript and CSS files.
Documentation: |ci| https://webassets.readthedocs.io/
Since releases aren't exactly happening on a regular schedule, you are
encouraged to use the latest code. ``webassets`` is pretty well tested,
so as long as the build status icon above remains a reassuring green,
you shouldn't run into any trouble.
You can `download a tarball`__ of the development version, or
install it via ``pip install webassets==dev``.
Development:
For development, to run all the tests, you need to have at least Java 7
installed (required for example to run the Google closure_ filter).
1. Install Python requirements with uv::
$ uv venv
$ uv pip install -r uv.lock
2. Install other requirements::
$ ./requirements-dev.sh
3. Run the tests::
./run_tests.sh
__ http://github.com/miracle2k/webassets/tarball/master#egg=webassets-dev
.. _Google closure: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#the-compiler-crashes-with-unsupportedclassversionerror-or-unsupported-majorminor-version-510
.. |ci| image:: https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg :target: https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets/actions/workflows/ci.yml
FAQs
Media asset management for Python, with glue code for various web frameworks
We found that webassets demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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