Filename

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Filename

jdeniau opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

Hi,

Sorry to bother you again ;)

I wonder why the given filename is not a filename but a repository name.
I understand the comportement when the files are not concat, but when they are, it is a little weird to have a filename like /js/global.js/global_a9c64ad2aa6e0e0e98b188a5a478640a.js

Thank you

Ollie Harridge · Answer 1 · Tue Jul 29 2014 21:52:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's for cache busting, especially with CDNs. A CDN would send far future expiry dates for generated assets which can only be broken by renaming the file (a lot of CDNs won't factor in query string busting). The gulp freeze plugin handles this.

Julien Deniau · Answer 2 · Tue Jul 29 2014 22:33:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeah, but I'll call it /js/global_a9c64ad2aa6e0e0e98b188a5a478640a.js directly

Ollie Harridge · Answer 3 · Wed Jul 30 2014 23:12:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The subfolders are there because the concat/minify/freeze is still optional in the live environment. By bunching it into subfolders it makes sure that main.js in one plugin doesn't override another.