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1181432624 I_kwDOBm6k_c5Gazsw 1688 [plugins][documentation] Is it possible to serve per-plugin static folders when writing one-off (single file) plugins? 9020979 closed 0     3 2022-03-26T01:17:44Z 2022-03-27T01:01:14Z 2022-03-26T21:34:47Z CONTRIBUTOR  

I'm trying to make a small plugin that depends on static assets, by following the guide here. I made a plugins/ directory with datasette_nteract_data_explorer.py.

I am trying to follow the example of datasette_vega, and serving static assets. I created a statics/ directory within plugins/ to serve my JS and CSS.

https://github.com/simonw/datasette-vega/blob/00de059ab1ef77394ba9f9547abfacf966c479c4/datasette_vega/init.py#L13

Unfortunately, datasette doesn't seem to be able to find my assets.

Input:

bash datasette ~/Library/Safari/History.db --plugins-dir=plugins/

Output:

I suspect this issue might go away if I move away from "one-off" plugin mode, but it's been a while since I created a new python package so I'm not sure how much work there is to go between "one off" and "packaged for PyPI". I'd like to try to avoid needing to repackage a new tar.gz file and or reinstall my library repeatedly when developing new python code.

  1. Is there a way to serve a static assets when using the plugins/ directory method instead of installing plugins as a new python package?
  2. If not, is there a way I can work on developing a plugin without creating and repackaging tar.gz files after every change, or is that the recommended path?

Thanks for your help!

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