How to make Symfony2 to load CSS, JS files directly and not via PHP?

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My development environment is not the fastest. I takes roughly 500ms per PHP request. It\'s starting to

Answer 1

Symfony documentation is always the first place where to start look: How to Use Assetic for Asset Management

In the prod environment, your JS and CSS files are represented by a single tag each. In other words, instead of seeing each JavaScript file you're including in your source, you'll likely just see something like this:

Moreover, that file does not actually exist, nor is it dynamically rendered by Symfony (as the asset files are in the dev environment). This is on purpose - letting Symfony generate these files dynamically in a production environment is just too slow.

Instead, each time you use your app in the prod environment (and therefore, each time you deploy), you should run the following task:

php app/console assetic:dump --env=prod --no-debug

This will physically generate and write each file that you need (e.g. /js/abcd123.js). If you update any of your assets, you'll need to run this again to regenerate the file.