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"hard things are suspiciously easy too." Care to share an example?

• BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  Here is a task that groups all static files from a web project into a directory. It has to make sure a bunch of directories exist, run a node js command to build some files from the proper dir, then run a python command to regroup them + all static files from all django apps into one dir. Simple. But then I had a problem I had to hack around. This required me to change an entry to a generated TOML file on the fly at every build. doit just lets me add a 5 lines python function that does whatever I want, and insert it between my bash tasks, and I'm done. def task_bundle_static_files(): def update_manifest(): conf = Path("var/static/manifest.toml") data = toml.loads(conf.read_text()) data["./src/main.js"] = data["index.html"] conf.write_text(toml.dumps(data)) return { "actions": [ "mkdir -p ./var/static/", "rm -fr ./var/static/* ", "cd frontend/; npm run build", "python manage.py collectstatic --noinput", update_manifest, "cp -r ./var/static/* ", ] }