Included Filters

The following filters are included in webassets, though some may require the installation of an external library, or the availability of external tools.

You can also write custom filters.

Javascript cross-compilers

class webassets.filter.babel.Babel(**kwargs)

Processes ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code using Babel.

Requires the babel executable to be available externally. To install it, you might be able to do:

$ npm install --global babel-cli

You probably also want some presets:

$ npm install --global babel-preset-es2015

Example python bundle:

es2015 = get_filter('babel', presets='es2015')
bundle = Bundle('**/*.js', filters=es2015)

Example YAML bundle:

es5-bundle:
    output: dist/es5.js
    config:
        BABEL_PRESETS: es2015
    filters: babel
    contents:
        - file1.js
        - file2.js

Supported configuration options:

BABEL_BIN
The path to the babel binary. If not set the filter will try to run babel as if it’s in the system path.
BABEL_PRESETS
Passed straight through to babel --presets to specify which babel presets to use
BABEL_EXTRA_ARGS
A list of manual arguments to be specified to the babel command
BABEL_RUN_IN_DEBUG
May be set to False to make babel not run in debug

Javascript compressors

rjsmin

class webassets.filter.rjsmin.RJSMin(**kwargs)

Minifies Javascript by removing whitespace, comments, etc.

Uses the rJSmin library, which is included with webassets. However, if you have the external package installed, it will be used instead. You may want to do this to get access to the faster C-extension.

Supported configuration options:

RJSMIN_KEEP_BANG_COMMENTS (boolean)
Keep bang-comments (comments starting with an exclamation mark).

yui_js

Minify Javascript and CSS with YUI Compressor.

YUI Compressor is an external tool written in Java, which needs to be available. One way to get it is to install the yuicompressor package:

pip install yuicompressor

No configuration is necessary in this case.

You can also get YUI compressor a different way and define a YUI_COMPRESSOR_PATH setting that points to the .jar file. Otherwise, an environment variable by the same name is tried. The filter will also look for a JAVA_HOME environment variable to run the .jar file, or will otherwise assume that java is on the system path.

class webassets.filter.yui.YUIJS(**kwargs)

closure_js

Minify Javascript with Google Closure Compiler.

Google Closure Compiler is an external tool written in Java, which needs to be available. One way to get it is to install the closure package:

pip install closure

No configuration is necessary in this case.

You can also define a CLOSURE_COMPRESSOR_PATH setting that points to the .jar file. Otherwise, an environment variable by the same name is tried. The filter will also look for a JAVA_HOME environment variable to run the .jar file, or will otherwise assume that java is on the system path.

Supported configuration options:

CLOSURE_COMPRESSOR_OPTIMIZATION
Corresponds to Google Closure’s compilation level parameter.
CLOSURE_EXTRA_ARGS

A list of further options to be passed to the Closure compiler. There are a lot of them.

For options which take values you want to use two items in the list:

['--output_wrapper', 'foo: %output%']

uglifyjs

class webassets.filter.uglifyjs.UglifyJS(**kwargs)

Minify Javascript using UglifyJS.

The filter requires version 2 of UglifyJS.

UglifyJS is an external tool written for NodeJS; this filter assumes that the uglifyjs executable is in the path. Otherwise, you may define a UGLIFYJS_BIN setting.

Additional options may be passed to uglifyjs using the setting UGLIFYJS_EXTRA_ARGS, which expects a list of strings.

jsmin

class webassets.filter.jsmin.JSMin(**kwargs)

Minifies Javascript by removing whitespace, comments, etc.

This filter uses a Python port of Douglas Crockford’s JSMin, which needs to be installed separately.

There are actually multiple implementations available, for example one by Baruch Even. Easiest to install via PyPI is the one by Dave St. Germain:

$ pip install jsmin

The filter is tested with this jsmin package from PyPI, but will work with any module that exposes a JavascriptMinify object with a minify method.

If you want to avoid installing another dependency, use the webassets.filter.rjsmin.RJSMin filter instead.

jspacker

class webassets.filter.jspacker.JSPacker(**kwargs)

Reduces the size of Javascript using an inline compression algorithm, i.e. the script will be unpacked on the client side by the browser.

Based on Dean Edwards’ jspacker 2, as ported by Florian Schulze.

slimit

class webassets.filter.slimit.Slimit(**kwargs)

Minifies JS.

Requires the slimit package (https://github.com/rspivak/slimit), which is a JavaScript minifier written in Python. It compiles JavaScript into more compact code so that it downloads and runs faster.

It offers mangle and mangle_toplevel options through SLIMIT_MANGLE and SLIMIT_MANGLE_TOPLEVEL

CSS compressors

cssmin

class webassets.filter.cssmin.CSSMin(**kwargs)

Minifies CSS.

Requires the cssmin package (http://github.com/zacharyvoase/cssmin), which is a port of the YUI CSS compression algorithm.

cssutils

class webassets.filter.cssutils.CSSUtils(**kwargs)

Minifies CSS by removing whitespace, comments etc., using the Python cssutils library.

Note that since this works as a parser on the syntax level, so invalid CSS input could potentially result in data loss.

yui_css

class webassets.filter.yui.YUICSS(**kwargs)

cleancss

class webassets.filter.cleancss.CleanCSS(**kwargs)

Minify css using Clean-css.

Clean-css is an external tool written for NodeJS; this filter assumes that the cleancss executable is in the path. Otherwise, you may define a CLEANCSS_BIN setting.

Additional options may be passed to cleancss binary using the setting CLEANCSS_EXTRA_ARGS, which expects a list of strings.

slimmer_css

class webassets.filter.slimmer.CSSSlimmer(**kwargs)

Minifies CSS by removing whitespace, comments etc., using the Python slimmer library.

rcssmin

class webassets.filter.rcssmin.RCSSMin(**kwargs)

Minifies CSS.

Requires the rcssmin package (https://github.com/ndparker/rcssmin). Alike ‘cssmin’ it is a port of the YUI CSS compression algorithm but aiming for speed instead of maximum compression.

Supported configuration options: RCSSMIN_KEEP_BANG_COMMENTS (boolean)

Keep bang-comments (comments starting with an exclamation mark).

JS/CSS compilers

postcss

class webassets.filter.postcss.PostCSS(**kwargs)

Processes CSS code using PostCSS.

Requires the postcss executable to be available externally. To install it, you might be able to do:

$ npm install --global postcss

You should also install the plugins you want to use:

$ npm install --global postcss-cssnext

You can configure postcss in postcss.config.js:

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        require('postcss-cssnext')({
          // optional configuration for cssnext
        })
    ],
};

Supported configuration options:

POSTCSS_BIN
Path to the postcss executable used to compile source files. By default, the filter will attempt to run postcss via the system path.
POSTCSS_EXTRA_ARGS
Additional command-line options to be passed to postcss using this setting, which expects a list of strings.

clevercss

class webassets.filter.clevercss.CleverCSS(**kwargs)

Converts CleverCSS markup to real CSS.

If you want to combine it with other CSS filters, make sure this one runs first.

less

class webassets.filter.less.Less(**kwargs)

Converts less markup to real CSS.

This depends on the NodeJS implementation of less, installable via npm. To use the old Ruby-based version (implemented in the 1.x Ruby gem), see Less.

Supported configuration options:

LESS_BIN (binary)
Path to the less executable used to compile source files. By default, the filter will attempt to run lessc via the system path.
LESS_LINE_NUMBERS (line_numbers)
Outputs filename and line numbers. Can be either ‘comments’, which will output the debug info within comments, ‘mediaquery’ that will output the information within a fake media query which is compatible with the SASSPath to the less executable used to compile source files.
LESS_RUN_IN_DEBUG (run_in_debug)
By default, the filter will compile in debug mode. Since the less compiler is written in Javascript and capable of running in the browser, you can set this to False to have your original less source files served (see below).
LESS_PATHS (paths)
Add include paths for less command line. It should be a list of paths relatives to Environment.directory or absolute paths. Order matters as less will pick the first file found in path order.
LESS_AS_OUTPUT (boolean)

By default, this works as an “input filter”, meaning less is called for each source file in the bundle. This is because the path of the source file is required so that @import directives within the Less file can be correctly resolved.

However, it is possible to use this filter as an “output filter”, meaning the source files will first be concatenated, and then the Less filter is applied in one go. This can provide a speedup for bigger projects.

Compiling less in the browser

less is an interesting case because it is written in Javascript and capable of running in the browser. While for performance reason you should prebuild your stylesheets in production, while developing you may be interested in serving the original less files to the client, and have less compile them in the browser.

To do so, you first need to make sure the less filter is not applied when Environment.debug is True. You can do so via an option:

env.config['less_run_in_debug'] = False

Second, in order for the less to identify the less source files as needing to be compiled, they have to be referenced with a rel="stylesheet/less" attribute. One way to do this is to use the Bundle.extra dictionary, which works well with the template tags that webassets provides for some template languages:

less_bundle = Bundle(
    '**/*.less',
    filters='less',
    extra={'rel': 'stylesheet/less' if env.debug else 'stylesheet'}
)

Then, for example in a Jinja2 template, you would write:

{% assets less_bundle %}
    <link rel="{{ EXTRA.rel }}" type="text/css" href="{{ ASSET_URL }}">
{% endassets %}

With this, the <link> tag will sport the correct rel value both in development and in production.

Finally, you need to include the less compiler:

if env.debug:
    js_bundle.contents += 'http://lesscss.googlecode.com/files/less-1.3.0.min.js'

less_ruby

class webassets.filter.less_ruby.Less(**kwargs)

Converts Less markup to real CSS.

This uses the old Ruby implementation available in the 1.x versions of the less gem. All 2.x versions of the gem are wrappers around the newer NodeJS/Javascript implementation, which you are generally encouraged to use, and which is available in webassets via the Less filter.

This filter for the Ruby version is being kept around for backwards-compatibility.

Supported configuration options:

LESS_RUBY_PATH (binary)
Path to the less executable used to compile source files. By default, the filter will attempt to run lessc via the system path.

sass

class webassets.filter.sass.Sass(**kwargs)

Converts Sass markup to real CSS.

Requires the Sass executable to be available externally. To install it, you might be able to do:

$ sudo gem install sass

By default, this works as an “input filter”, meaning sass is called for each source file in the bundle. This is because the path of the source file is required so that @import directives within the Sass file can be correctly resolved.

However, it is possible to use this filter as an “output filter”, meaning the source files will first be concatenated, and then the Sass filter is applied in one go. This can provide a speedup for bigger projects.

To use Sass as an output filter:

from webassets.filter import get_filter
sass = get_filter('sass', as_output=True)
Bundle(...., filters=(sass,))

However, if you want to use the output filter mode and still also use the @import directive in your Sass files, you will need to pass along the load_paths argument, which specifies the path to which the imports are relative to (this is implemented by changing the working directory before calling the sass executable):

sass = get_filter('sass', as_output=True, load_paths='/tmp')

With as_output=True, the resulting concatenation of the Sass files is piped to Sass via stdin (cat ... | sass --stdin ...) and may cause applications to not compile if import statements are given as relative paths.

For example, if a file foo/bar/baz.scss imports file foo/bar/bat.scss (same directory) and the import is defined as @import "bat"; then Sass will fail compiling because Sass has naturally no information on where baz.scss is located on disk (since the data was passed via stdin) in order for Sass to resolve the location of bat.scss:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
webassets.exceptions.FilterError: sass: subprocess had error: stderr=(sass):1: File to import not found or unreadable: bat. (Sass::SyntaxError)
       Load paths:
         /path/to/project-foo
        on line 1 of standard input
  Use --trace for backtrace.
, stdout=, returncode=65

To overcome this issue, the full path must be provided in the import statement, @import "foo/bar/bat", then webassets will pass the load_paths argument (e.g., /path/to/project-foo) to Sass via its -I flags so Sass can resolve the full path to the file to be imported: /path/to/project-foo/foo/bar/bat

Support configuration options:

SASS_BIN
The path to the Sass binary. If not set, the filter will try to run sass as if it’s in the system path.
SASS_STYLE
The style for the output CSS. Can be one of expanded (default), nested, compact or compressed.
SASS_DEBUG_INFO

If set to True, will cause Sass to output debug information to be used by the FireSass Firebug plugin. Corresponds to the --debug-info command line option of Sass.

Note that for this, Sass uses @media rules, which are not removed by a CSS compressor. You will thus want to make sure that this option is disabled in production.

By default, the value of this option will depend on the environment DEBUG setting.

SASS_LINE_COMMENTS

Passes --line-comments flag to sass which emit comments in the generated CSS indicating the corresponding source line.

Note that this option is disabled by Sass if --style compressed or --debug-info options are provided.

Enabled by default. To disable, set empty environment variable SASS_LINE_COMMENTS= or pass line_comments=False to this filter.

SASS_AS_OUTPUT

By default, this works as an “input filter”, meaning sass is called for each source file in the bundle. This is because the path of the source file is required so that @import directives within the Sass file can be correctly resolved.

However, it is possible to use this filter as an “output filter”, meaning the source files will first be concatenated, and then the Sass filter is applied in one go. This can provide a speedup for bigger projects.

It will also allow you to share variables between files.

SASS_SOURCE_MAP
If provided, this will generate source maps in the output depending on the type specified. By default this will use Sass’s auto. Possible values are auto, file, inline, or none.
SASS_LOAD_PATHS
It should be a list of paths relatives to Environment.directory or absolute paths. Order matters as sass will pick the first file found in path order. These are fed into the -I flag of the sass command and is used to control where sass imports code from.
SASS_LIBS
It should be a list of paths relatives to Environment.directory or absolute paths. These are fed into the -r flag of the sass command and is used to require ruby libraries before running sass.

scss

class webassets.filter.sass.SCSS(*a, **kw)

Version of the sass filter that uses the SCSS syntax.

compass

class webassets.filter.compass.Compass(**kwargs)

Converts Compass .sass files to CSS.

Requires at least version 0.10.

To compile a standard Compass project, you only need to have to compile your main screen.sass, print.sass and ie.sass files. All the partials that you include will be handled by Compass.

If you want to combine the filter with other CSS filters, make sure this one runs first.

Supported configuration options:

COMPASS_BIN
The path to the Compass binary. If not set, the filter will try to run compass as if it’s in the system path.
COMPASS_PLUGINS
Compass plugins to use. This is equivalent to the --require command line option of the Compass. and expects a Python list object of Ruby libraries to load.
COMPASS_CONFIG

An optional dictionary of Compass configuration options. The values are emitted as strings, and paths are relative to the Environment’s directory by default; include a project_path entry to override this.

The sourcemap option has a caveat. A file called _.css.map is created by Compass in the tempdir (where _.scss is the original asset), which is then moved into the output_path directory. Since the tempdir is created one level down from the output path, the relative links in the sourcemap should correctly map. This file, however, will not be versioned, and thus this option should ideally only be used locally for development and not in production with a caching service as the _.css.map file will not be invalidated.

pyscss

class webassets.filter.pyscss.PyScss(**kwargs)

Converts Scss markup to real CSS.

This uses PyScss, a native Python implementation of the Scss language. The PyScss module needs to be installed. It’s API has been changing; currently, version 1.1.5 is known to be supported.

This is an alternative to using the sass or scss filters, which are based on the original, external tools.

Note

The Sass syntax is not supported by PyScss. You need to use the sass filter based on the original Ruby implementation instead.

Supported configuration options:

PYSCSS_DEBUG_INFO (debug_info)

Include debug information in the output for use with FireSass.

If unset, the default value will depend on your Environment.debug setting.

PYSCSS_LOAD_PATHS (load_paths)

Additional load paths that PyScss should use.

Warning

The filter currently does not automatically use Environment.load_path for this.

PYSCSS_STATIC_ROOT (static_root)
The directory PyScss should look in when searching for include files that you have referenced. Will use Environment.directory by default.
PYSCSS_STATIC_URL (static_url)
The url PyScss should use when generating urls to files in PYSCSS_STATIC_ROOT. Will use Environment.url by default.
PYSCSS_ASSETS_ROOT (assets_root)
The directory PyScss should look in when searching for things like images that you have referenced. Will use PYSCSS_STATIC_ROOT by default.
PYSCSS_ASSETS_URL (assets_url)
The url PyScss should use when generating urls to files in PYSCSS_ASSETS_ROOT. Will use PYSCSS_STATIC_URL by default.
PYSCSS_STYLE (style)
The style of the output CSS. Can be one of nested (default), compact, compressed, or expanded.

libsass

class webassets.filter.libsass.LibSass(**kwargs)

Converts Sass markup to real CSS.

Requires the libsass package (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/libsass):

pip install libsass

libsass is binding to C/C++ implementation of a Sass compiler Libsass

Configuration options:

LIBSASS_STYLE (style)
an optional coding style of the compiled result. choose one of: nested (default), expanded, compact, compressed
LIBSASS_INCLUDES (includes)
an optional list of paths to find @imported SASS/CSS source files
LIBSASS_AS_OUTPUT
use this filter as an “output filter”, meaning the source files will first be concatenated, and then the Sass filter is applied.

See libsass documentation for full documentation about these configuration options:

Example:

Define a bundle for style.scss that contains @imports to files in subfolders:

Bundle('style.scss', filters='libsass', output='style.css', depends='**/*.scss')

node-sass

class webassets.filter.node_sass.NodeSass(**kwargs)

Converts Scss markup to real CSS.

This uses node-sass which is a wrapper around libsass.

This is an alternative to using the sass or scss filters, which are based on the original, external tools.

Supported configuration options:

NODE_SASS_DEBUG_INFO (debug_info)

Include debug information in the output

If unset, the default value will depend on your Environment.debug setting.

NODE_SASS_LOAD_PATHS (load_paths)
Additional load paths that node-sass should use.
NODE_SASS_STYLE (style)
The style of the output CSS. Can be one of nested (default), compact, compressed, or expanded.
NODE_SASS_CLI_ARGS (cli_args)
Additional cli arguments

node-scss

class webassets.filter.node_sass.NodeSCSS(*a, **kw)

Version of the node-sass filter that uses the SCSS syntax.

stylus

class webassets.filter.stylus.Stylus(**kwargs)

Converts Stylus markup to CSS.

Requires the Stylus executable to be available externally. You can install it using the Node Package Manager:

$ npm install -g stylus

Supported configuration options:

STYLUS_BIN
The path to the Stylus binary. If not set, assumes stylus is in the system path.
STYLUS_PLUGINS
A Python list of Stylus plugins to use. Each plugin will be included via Stylus’s command-line --use argument.
STYLUS_EXTRA_ARGS
A Python list of any additional command-line arguments.
STYLUS_EXTRA_PATHS
A Python list of any additional import paths.

coffeescript

class webassets.filter.coffeescript.CoffeeScript(**kwargs)

Converts CoffeeScript to real JavaScript.

If you want to combine it with other JavaScript filters, make sure this one runs first.

Supported configuration options:

COFFEE_NO_BARE
Set to True to compile with the top-level function wrapper (suppresses the –bare option to coffee, which is used by default).

typescript

class webassets.filter.typescript.TypeScript(**kwargs)

Compile TypeScript to JavaScript.

TypeScript is an external tool written for NodeJS. This filter assumes that the tsc executable is in the path. Otherwise, you may define the TYPESCRIPT_BIN setting.

To specify TypeScript compiler options, TYPESCRIPT_CONFIG may be defined. E.g.: --removeComments true --target ES6.

requirejs

class webassets.filter.requirejs.RequireJSFilter(**kwargs)

Optimizes AMD-style modularized JavaScript into a single asset using RequireJS.

This depends on the NodeJS executable r.js; install via npm:

$ npm install -g requirejs

Details on configuring r.js can be found at http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html#basics.

Supported configuration options:

executable (env: REQUIREJS_BIN)

Path to the RequireJS executable used to compile source files. By default, the filter will attempt to run r.js via the system path.

config (env: REQUIREJS_CONFIG)

The RequireJS options file. The path is taken to be relative to the Environment.directory (by default is /static).

baseUrl (env: REQUIREJS_BASEURL)

The baseUrl parameter to r.js; this is the directory that AMD modules will be loaded from. The path is taken relative to the Environment.directory (by default is /static). Typically, this is used in conjunction with a baseUrl parameter set in the config options file, where the baseUrl value in the config file is used for client-side processing, and the value here is for server-side processing.

optimize (env: REQUIREJS_OPTIMIZE)

The optimize parameter to r.js; controls whether or not r.js minifies the output. By default, it is enabled, but can be set to none to disable minification. The typical scenario to disable minification is if you do some additional processing of the JavaScript (such as removing console.log() lines) before minification by the rjsmin filter.

extras (env: REQUIREJS_EXTRAS)

Any other command-line parameters to be passed to r.js. The string is expected to be in unix shell-style format, meaning that quotes can be used to escape spaces, etc.

run_in_debug (env: REQUIREJS_RUN_IN_DEBUG)

Boolean which controls if the AMD requirejs is evaluated client-side or server-side in debug mode. If set to a truthy value (e.g. ‘yes’), then server-side compilation is done, even in debug mode. The default is false.

Client-side AMD evaluation

AMD modules can be loaded client-side without any processing done on the server-side. The advantage to this is that debugging is easier because the browser can tell you which source file is responsible for a particular line of code. The disadvantage is that it means that each loaded AMD module is a separate HTTP request. When running client-side, the client needs access to the config – for this reason, when running in client-side mode, the webassets environment must be adjusted to include a reference to this configuration. Typically, this is done by adding something similar to the following during webassets initialization:

if env.debug and not env.config.get('requirejs_run_in_debug', True):
    env['requirejs'].contents += ('requirejs-browser-config.js',)

And the file requirejs-browser-config.js will look something like:

require.config({baseUrl: '/static/script/'});

Set the run_in_debug option to control client-side or server-side compilation in debug.

JavaScript templates

jst

class webassets.filter.jst.JST(**kwargs)

This filter processes generic JavaScript templates. It will generate JavaScript code that runs all files through a template compiler, and makes the templates available as an object.

It was inspired by Jammit.

For example, if you have a file named license.jst:

<div class="drivers-license">
  <h2>Name: <%= name %></h2>
  <em>Hometown: <%= birthplace %></em>
</div>

Then, after applying this filter, you could use the template in JavaScript:

JST.license({name : "Moe", birthplace : "Brooklyn"});

The name of each template is derived from the filename. If your JST files are spread over different directories, the path up to the common prefix will be included. For example:

Bundle('templates/app1/license.jst', 'templates/app2/profile.jst',
       filters='jst')

will make the templates available as app1/license and app2/profile.

Note

The filter is “generic” in the sense that it does not actually compile the templates, but wraps them in a JavaScript function call, and can thus be used with any template language. webassets also has filters for specific JavaScript template languages like DustJS or Handlebars, and those filters precompile the templates on the server, which means a performance boost on the client-side.

Unless configured otherwise, the filter will use the same micro-templating language that Jammit uses, which is turn is the same one that is available in underscore.js. The JavaScript code necessary to compile such templates will implicitly be included in the filter output.

Supported configuration options:

JST_COMPILER (template_function)

A string that is inserted into the generated JavaScript code in place of the function to be called that should do the compiling. Unless you specify a custom function here, the filter will include the JavaScript code of it’s own micro-templating language, which is the one used by underscore.js and Jammit.

If you assign a custom function, it is your responsibility to ensure that it is available in your final JavaScript.

If this option is set to False, then the template strings will be output directly, which is to say, JST.foo will be a string holding the raw source of the foo template.

JST_NAMESPACE (namespace)
How the templates should be made available in JavaScript. Defaults to window.JST, which gives you a global JST object.
JST_BARE (bare)

Whether everything generated by this filter should be wrapped inside an anonymous function. Default to False.

Note

If you enable this option, the namespace must be a property of the window object, or you won’t be able to access the templates.

JST_DIR_SEPARATOR (separator)
The separator character to use for templates within directories. Defaults to ‘/’

handlebars

class webassets.filter.handlebars.Handlebars(**kwargs)

Compile Handlebars templates.

This filter assumes that the handlebars executable is in the path. Otherwise, you may define a HANDLEBARS_BIN setting.

Note

Use this filter if you want to precompile Handlebars templates. If compiling them in the browser is acceptable, you may use the JST filter, which needs no external dependency.

Warning

Currently, this filter is not compatible with input filters. Any filters that would run during the input-stage will simply be ignored. Input filters tend to be other compiler-style filters, so this is unlikely to be an issue.

dustjs

class webassets.filter.dust.DustJS(**kwargs)

DustJS templates compilation filter.

Takes a directory full .dust files and creates a single Javascript object that registers to the dust global when loaded in the browser:

Bundle('js/templates/', filters='dustjs')

Note that in the above example, a directory is given as the bundle contents, which is unusual, but required by this filter.

This uses the dusty compiler, which is a separate project from the DustJS implementation. To install dusty together with LinkedIn’s version of dustjs (the original does not support NodeJS > 0.4):

npm install dusty
rm -rf node_modules/dusty/node_modules/dust
git clone https://github.com/linkedin/dustjs node_modules/dust

Note

To generate the DustJS client-side Javascript, you can then do:

cd node_modules/dust
make dust
cp dist/dist-core...js your/static/assets/path

For compilation, set the DUSTY_PATH=.../node_modules/dusty/bin/dusty. Optionally, set NODE_PATH=.../node.

Other

cssrewrite

class webassets.filter.cssrewrite.CSSRewrite(replace=False)

Source filter that rewrites relative urls in CSS files.

CSS allows you to specify urls relative to the location of the CSS file. However, you may want to store your compressed assets in a different place than source files, or merge source files from different locations. This would then break these relative CSS references, since the base URL changed.

This filter transparently rewrites CSS url() instructions in the source files to make them relative to the location of the output path. It works as a source filter, i.e. it is applied individually to each source file before they are merged.

No configuration is necessary.

The filter also supports a manual mode:

get_filter('cssrewrite', replace={'old_directory':'/custom/path/'})

This will rewrite all urls that point to files within old_directory to use /custom/path as a prefix instead.

You may plug in your own replace function:

get_filter('cssrewrite', replace=lambda url: re.sub(r'^/?images/', '/images/', url))
get_filter('cssrewrite', replace=lambda url: '/images/'+url[7:] if url.startswith('images/') else url)

datauri

class webassets.filter.datauri.CSSDataUri(**kwargs)

Will replace CSS url() references to external files with internal data: URIs.

The external file is now included inside your CSS, which minimizes HTTP requests.

Note

Data Uris have clear disadvantages, so put some thought into if and how you would like to use them. Have a look at some performance measurements.

The filter respects a DATAURI_MAX_SIZE option, which is the maximum size (in bytes) of external files to include. The default limit is what I think should be a reasonably conservative number, 2048 bytes.

cssprefixer

class webassets.filter.cssprefixer.CSSPrefixer(**kwargs)

Uses CSSPrefixer to add vendor prefixes to CSS files.

autoprefixer

class webassets.filter.autoprefixer.AutoprefixerFilter(**kwargs)

Prefixes vendor-prefixes using autoprefixer <https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer>, which uses the Can I Use? <http://www.caniuse.com> database to know which prefixes need to be inserted.

This depends on the autoprefixer <https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer> command line tool being installed (use npm install autoprefixer).

Supported configuration options:

AUTOPREFIXER_BIN
Path to the autoprefixer executable used to compile source files. By default, the filter will attempt to run autoprefixer via the system path.
AUTOPREFIXER_BROWSERS

The browser expressions to use. This corresponds to the --browsers <value> flag, see the –browsers documentation <https://github.com/ai/autoprefixer#browsers>. By default, this flag won’t be passed, and autoprefixer’s default will be used.

Example:

AUTOPREFIXER_BROWSERS = ['> 1%', 'last 2 versions', 'firefox 24', 'opera 12.1']
AUTOPREFIXER_EXTRA_ARGS
Additional options may be passed to autoprefixer using this setting, which expects a list of strings.

jinja2

class webassets.filter.jinja2.Jinja2(**kwargs)

Process a file through the Jinja2 templating engine.

Requires the jinja2 package (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2).

The Jinja2 context can be specified with the JINJA2_CONTEXT configuration option or directly with context={…}. Example:

Bundle('input.css', filters=Jinja2(context={'foo': 'bar'}))

Additionally to enable template loading mechanics from your project you can provide JINJA2_ENV or jinja2_env arg to make use of already created environment.

spritemapper

class webassets.filter.spritemapper.Spritemapper(**kwargs)

Generate CSS spritemaps using Spritemapper, a Python utility that merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices. Installation is easy:

pip install spritemapper

Supported configuration options:

SPRITEMAPPER_PADDING
A tuple of integers indicating the number of pixels of padding to place between sprites
SPRITEMAPPER_ANNEAL_STEPS
Affects the number of combinations to be attempted by the box packer algorithm

Note: Since the spritemapper command-line utility expects source and output files to be on the filesystem, this filter interfaces directly with library internals instead. It has been tested to work with Spritemapper version 1.0.