django static files versioning

Question

I\'m working on some universal solution for problem with static files and updates in it.

Example: let\'s say there was site with /static/styles.css file - a

Answer 1

I use a global base context in all my views, where I set the static version to be the millisecond time (that way, it will be a new version every time I restart my application):

# global base context
base_context = {
    "title": settings.SITE_TITLE,
    "static_version": int(round(time.time() * 1000)),
}

# function to merge context with base context
def context(items: Dict) -> Dict:
    return {**base_context, **items}

# view
def view(request):
    cxt = context({<...>})
    return render(request, "page.html", cxt)

my page.html extends my base.html template, where I use it like this:

fairly simple and does the job