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

Question

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

Answer 1

Try to remove this part of code in routing_dev.yml when use_controller is false :

_assetic:
    resource: .
    type:     assetic

Answer 2

If you use assetic:dump, then you have to cache:clear -e dev

"...if you run cache:clear on your production cache, it warms up the cache with debug mode on. If you try to dump assets afterwards, weird things might happen."

i found it here: http://sftuts.com/using-assetic-in-symfony2-for-css-compression (4. paragraph)

Answer 3

I have the same problem, working configuration is: comment out from routing_dev.yml:

_assetic:
 resource: .
 type:     assetic

set use_controller to false. After doing this I'm able to use assetic:dump and see working page.

Answer 4

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:

<script src="/app_dev.php/js/abcd123.js"></script>

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.

Answer 5

From the documentation

Modify the dev config to avoid using the controller.

# app/config/config_dev.yml
assetic:
    use_controller: false

Remove the route in routing_dev.yml to avoid side effect

# app/config/routing_dev.yml
_assetic:
    resource: .
    type:     assetic

Automatically dump your css/less files every time you have a modification.

php app/console assetic:dump --watch