Best Practice for CSS file versions

[Mark Pitely]

There's got to be a good way to make sure that when a CSS file is updated, the new one is pushed down to all the users.

Ideally, we could append 'modified date'  (or inode, I guess) to the CSS files.

I'm just trying to think of the best/easiest way to implement that. Right now, my CSS files are just text entries in the html_head.vtl rather than a pull or something. I think I would also like to keep them as files rather than some other format (structure, etc).

I was considering using a content type and using a relationship to the files, which should give me all the metadata I need to do it. Alternatively, I could extend file type structure to give it an order, and then pull files based on that (order critical as we are talking about css, of course).

Anyone doing anything like this?

Mark Pitely

Marywood University

[Will Ezell]

Mark:

See the cache busting solutions here.  While they are geared towards CDNs, they are really just general ways of keeping assets fresh.  You could use any combination of them.

https://dotcms.com/docs/latest/cdn-considerations#sitewide

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[Mark Pitely]

Wow, thanks!

Please accept my apologies for not reading the documentation first. I never saw that before.

Perhaps also link/reference it somewhere besides 'CDN Considerations' which is my lame excuse for not finding it earlier.

Mark Pitely

Marywood University

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