[Django]-Is there a way to prevent django-pipeline from creating new jsx files every time it compiles react.js code?

If I understand your question correctly, your concern is that after running collectstatic, you have files like foo.2d32ed.js, foo.4bhf45.js, foo.09d9fg.js in your STATIC_ROOT directory.

If so, then this isn’t an issue with PyReact or even with django-pipeline; this is occurring because you’re using a cached storage backend (i.e. your STATICFILES_STORAGE setting). The string appended to your filename is a hash of the file’s contents, which effectively acts like versioning of your static files.

The reason for this is cache-busting on browsers. With filenames as functions of the file’s contents, a browser can cache the file forever, which will speed up page load times for your users on subsequent visits.

If you want to disable this behavior, you can use a non-caching storage backend like PipelineStorage instead.

Here’s some documentation that may help:

• https://django-pipeline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/storages.html
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#storages