django-collectstatic-daemon

This is a simple daemon that will watch your project directory and collectstatic files whenever there is a change. This is often times useful when you are working with node/npm project and you need to collectstatic files after npm build/prod/watch converts the statis resources.

Install

1. Install the package

   pip install django-collectstatic-daemon

2. Add 'watcher' to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       ...
       'watcher'
   ]
   

Using

Using the command is as simple as running

./manage.py watcher