Here is a task that groups all static files from a web project into a directory.

It has to make sure a bunch of directories exist, run a node js command to build some files from the proper dir, then run a python command to regroup them + all static files from all django apps into one dir. Simple.

But then I had a problem I had to hack around. This required me to change an entry to a generated TOML file on the fly at every build.

doit just lets me add a 5 lines python function that does whatever I want, and insert it between my bash tasks, and I'm done.

    def task_bundle_static_files():

        def update_manifest():
            conf = Path("var/static/manifest.toml")
            data = toml.loads(conf.read_text())
            data["./src/main.js"] = data["index.html"]
            conf.write_text(toml.dumps(data))

        return {
            "actions": [
                "mkdir -p ./var/static/",
                "rm -fr ./var/static/* ",
                "cd frontend/; npm run build",
                "python manage.py collectstatic --noinput",
                update_manifest,
                "cp -r ./var/static/* ",
            ]
        }