1589137 - Changes to static files outside the frontend folder requiring make build

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Pontoon, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Anastasia]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Edit pontoon/base/static/css/style.css
2. Open in browser http://localhost:8000/static/css/style.css

Actual results:

No changes in the browser.
It updates only after running "make build"

Expected results:

The file should be updated.

Comment 1

[Matjaz Horvat [:mathjazz]]

Thanks for the report!

:adrian, I'm having this problem as well. Do you mind having a look at this?

Comment 2

[[DEACTIVATED] Adrian Gaudebert]

This is a side-effect of enabling the feature for Translate.Next. I had to use --nostatic on the runserver django command, so that I could load static files from the webpack server. But then when I do that, we do lose automatic reloading of django static files.

I'm investigating, but I guess I'll have to find a way to have the effect of the static django utility for resources that are not frontend related. Not sure if or how that's doable.

Comment 3

[Matjaz Horvat [:mathjazz]]

Bumping priority, because this makes development on static files outside frontend extremely slow.

Comment 4

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/pull/1445

Comment 5

[[DEACTIVATED] Adrian Gaudebert]

adngdb merged PR #1445: "Fix bug 1589137 - Autoreload django static files in dev." in 40332eb.