Possibility to delete the build folder in production about django-cra-helper HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm glad to hear someone is using this in production! I honestly haven't been sure this would be suitable for more than hobby projects so it's heartening to get feedback that this is a viable production solution 😍

As to your question, I played around a little bit and unfortunately the current version of the library requires that reactjs/build/asset-manifest.json be present even after running collectstatic. Everything else in the reactjs/build/ folder can be deleted, it's just asset-manifest.json that needs to remain.

...Which feels like a bug to me. Digging a bit deeper, since asset-manifest.json gets scooped up in the collectstatic command, this library's CRAManifestFinder can be updated to try and access the one in the static/ folder if the one in reactjs/build/ is missing, and then fail. This would make it possible to completely remove the build/ directory!

Let me see what I can do...

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@vsobotka I just published django-cra-helper==1.2.3 to PyPI that should allow you to completely remove your reactjs/build/ directory provided you've run collectstatic and confirmed that asset-manifest.json exists in STATIC_ROOT. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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@MasterKale Hi, thanks for such a quick response and action! Taking the STATIC_ROOT into consideration makes a perfect sense and is the ideal solution. I am currently testing it in the staging environment and it looks it is working perfectly. Thanks a lot!

I honestly haven't been sure this would be suitable for more than hobby projects so it's heartening to get feedback that this is a viable production solution 😍

I have no idea how else would I do that to be honest. We are using it for www.simcompanies.com roughly for about 9 months now and it has worked wonders. So really thank you for this amazing plugin!

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