Enable SASS processor in production

In production environments (especially via Docker), the SCSS is compiled only one time at the start. The management command compilescss have to be executed if theme variables have changed.

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Why? The CSS is recompiled immediately when the config is changed (via a signal).

But for the production env it must be compiled manually. The signal only deletes cached files.

And then the sass processor recompiles it the next time a page is loaded. Why should a production environment be any different in that regard?

Because the recompilation is triggered only if static files are served by Django (there must be a trigger somewhere). When the static files are provided by an extra web server like nginx it's not working. You can check django-sass-preprocessor's documentation.

Isn't calling the sass_src template tag enough of a trigger?

Actually yes.

OK, I found the problem: https://github.com/jrief/django-sass-processor/blob/9a5171244d5fe165ce073fbfd86a3e949e6ec777/sass_processor/processor.py#L38

SASS_PROCESSOR_ENABLED is not provided through our settings.py.

That sounds very easily fixable ;).

Yes, I will do it this evening.

assigned to @hansegucker

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