I’m not sure if this is out of scope for Hugo, but I thought I’d mention it here to get some input. As a way to being able to use far future expire headers on CSS and JS files, I’ve been using a method of adding a date to the filename, like: style.20141003.csswhich has served me well. It’s easy to …

Have you seen: https://gohugo.io/hugo-pipes/

Yeah, you’re right. I probably need to finally learn one of those systems.

I do eventually want to add some of these features into Hugo, but only when it makes sense. These other tools do a great job already. I think it’s only good to add to hugo when no configuration is needed. As soon as we add a feature that requires a bunch of extra configuration then I feel they are b…

This stuff just makes me sad. Cache busting resource URLs kills innocent http puppies. Cache should be a server configuration issue not something for HTML link/script tags.

Of course this breaks the beauty of Hugo’s single binary install. But for ,

I agree that caching should be configured on the server, but cache busting is useful when we site updates available quickly. Also cache busting allows for longer TTLs on content, which helps @bep is there a way for me to “inject” data into a hugo build session? I have looked, and did not find anyth…

That could do the trick. I will try it out. Thank you.

@UkiahSmith , if you work out something elegant, I’m sure the community would like to see it.

I worked up a way to use getenv and make to automate css names for cache busting: https://ukiahsmith.com/blog/hugo-static-asset-cache-busting/ It generates a random number in make, puts it in the environment. Then a Hugo templates uses getenv to get the number, and puts it in the css name.

I wrote a small Go program to generate the sequence numbers, based on system time. See https://bitbucket.org/rickb777/timestamp Then I run a shell script: make-config.sh #!/bin/bash -e cd $(dirname $0) OUT=${1:-data/build.yaml} timestamp=$(timestamp -base 36 -precision min -zero 2015-07-01) echo …

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There an os env var templ func.

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