Static asset revisioning through file content hash

If you haven't used grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a gruntfile as well as install and use grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, install this plugin with this command:

npm install --save-dev grunt-filerev

This task will revision your files based on its contents. You should then set the files to expire far into the future for better caching and it will only update when it changes.

grunt.initConfig({
  filerev: {
    options: {
      encoding: 'utf8',
      algorithm: 'md5',
      length: 8
    },
    images: {
      src: 'img/**/*.{jpg,jpeg,gif,png,webp}'
    }
  },
});

Type: String
Default: 'utf8'

The file encoding.

Type: String
Default: 'md5'

algorithm is dependent on the available algorithms supported by the version of OpenSSL on the platform. Examples are 'sha1', 'md5', 'sha256', 'sha512', etc. On recent releases, openssl list-message-digest-algorithms will display the available digest algorithms.

Type: Number
Default: 8

The number of characters of the file hash to prefix the file name with.

It will overwrite the src files if you don't specify a dest:

filerev: {
  images: {
    src: ['img1.png', 'img2.png'],
    dest: 'tmp'
  }
}

The task keeps track of all files created and its sources in a summary that is exposed through the grunt.filerev.summary object. It can be used to replace references to the revved files or debugging purposes. The key of the object is the original filename, the value is the new revved path.

For a configuration like this

filerev: {
  images: {
    src: ['img1.png', 'img2.png'],
    dest: 'tmp'
  }
}

the content grunt.filerev.summary could look like that:

{
  'img1.png': 'tmp/img1.59bcc3ad.png',
  'img2.png': 'tmp/img2.060b1aa6.png'
}

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