Use CDN instead of hard code in Gantry?
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- k3vmo
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I've been using sites like
Pingdom
to test out the various demos.
Is it possible to add a reference or change to have things like fontawesome, mootools and jquery point to the most current version on a CDN (a lot of other programmers do this to reduce requests to the server) *rather* than it be sent from gantry?
I'd prefer not to manually modify gantry each time there is an update. - - - It is a rough road that leads to greatness.
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- MrT
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You should update Gantry manually because you should test any update first in a clone of your site (a test area). Sometimes a Gantry update also needs a template updates and vice-versa too. When we load JS libraries we do already use cdnjs - but you will note that they specify a specific version for exactly the same reason.
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- k3vmo
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- Just to confirm I understand - I should leave 'as-is' because *potentially* a jquery update (if I use from a CDN) could cause conflicts or things to stop working?
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- MrT
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Of course - any update of anything can cause issues - that is why you should always test every update before applying it for real on your site. Where we already do use libraries from cdnjs we specify the version number required - in other words, that version would never be changed on Cdnjs and is therefore safe to use, when something get's updated it's version number would change, we would only specify the new version in our code (from cdnjs) if it had gone through our testing regime first.
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