Basset slow on first site load

[sammyblackbaron]

In my deploy script I have these lines:

php artisan storage:link
php artisan basset:clear
php artisan basset:cache

My .env is set to:

APP_ENV=production

And I don't have any BASSET lines in my .env.

Yet when I deploy and visit my site, the first page load takes 30+ seconds as if it's having to cache again. Have I missed a setting or command?

[backpack-ai-bot[bot]]

Based on the information provided, it seems you're experiencing slow first page loads despite running the appropriate Basset commands in your deployment script. This is a known behavior with Basset in Backpack 6.x.

According to the documentation, when you deploy to production, Basset caches assets as pages are loaded for the first time, which can make initial page loads quite slow. This is mentioned in the upgrade guide:

If your pages are slow to load, that's because Basset caching the assets as you load the pages, so your first pageload will be quite slow. Upgrade Guide

You're already running the recommended commands in your deployment script:

php artisan storage:link
php artisan basset:clear
php artisan basset:cache

The basset:cache command should pre-cache all CSS and JS assets to avoid the slow first load. However, there might be a few things to check:

1. Make sure your storage permissions are correct. Some users have reported fixing similar issues with:

sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chmod -R 775 storage

2. You might want to try running php artisan basset:fresh instead, which combines the clear and cache commands.

3. Check if you have the correct filesystem configuration for Basset. By default, it uses the public disk.

4. If you're using a cloud deployment like AWS, you might need specific configurations. For example, one user solved similar issues by adding:

BASSET_DISK=s3
BASSET_CACHE_MAP=false

5. You could also try running php artisan optimize after the Basset commands to ensure all Laravel caches are properly built.

If these suggestions don't help, you could temporarily set BASSET_DEV_MODE=true in your .env file, which will make Basset always use CDN URLs instead of caching locally. This is not recommended for production long-term but might help diagnose if the issue is specifically with Basset's caching mechanism.

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[jcastroa87]

Hello @sammyblackbaron

As our bot say, make sure you have the right permissions for cache.

Try with this command to check if there is an error in your server config

php artisan basset:check

And please let us know about the versions you are running

php artisan backpack:version

Cheers.

[sammyblackbaron]

Thanks for the reply. Here is the output from those commands:

php artisan basset:check

INFO  Checking Backpack Basset installation.  

Initializing basset check ............................................. DONE  
Checking cache storage ................................................ DONE  
Fetching a basset ..................................................... DONE

php artisan backpack:version

### PHP VERSION:
8.4.6

### PHP EXTENSIONS:
Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, pcntl, random, readline, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, bcmath, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, intl, exif, mysqlnd, PDO, Phar, posix, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, sqlite3, tidy, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, xmlreader, Zend OPcache

### LARAVEL VERSION:
11.44.7.0

### BACKPACK PACKAGE VERSIONS:
backpack/basset: 1.3.9
backpack/crud: 6.8.2
backpack/filemanager: 3.0.10
backpack/pro: 2.2.35
backpack/theme-tabler: 1.2.18

It doesn't look like there's a problem with my cache folder permissions and I'm not using AWS, just local public disk.

[jcastroa87]

Thanks, @sammyblackbaron, for sharing this information, I don't see a problem in check and versions, how did you know this is a basset problem and not a SQL loading time? Did you have some log or network information to check where could be the slow loading? This happens just with the first page or any route?

Cheers.

[jcastroa87]

Due to not activity, I will close the issue, but please feel free to re-open or create a new one.

Cheers.