Ordering assets in Magento 2

Posted in Magento on 15 August 2017

This one will come in useful until Magento 2 sorts itself out.

For some reason, Magento 2 has no way to order assets out of the box. There is now an extension which allows you to set an order attribute in the CSS tags of the layout XML files and layout updates in Admin Panel.

Github: Mage2 Ordered Assets by Quickshiftin

Example

Before

<head>
   <css src="css/app.css" />
</head>

After

<head>
   <css src="css/app.css" order="100" />
</head>