I really like this idea; it would help some longstanding performance issues on the OPAC (and perhaps, eventually, the staff side). Even better, it would make regeneration of the CSS from the LESS a bit more straightforward, and allow us to remove the generated files from Git. Eventually, it could also give a cleaner solution for some of the caching issues we've hacked around.
It seems like the easiest way forward would be to minify/concatenate all of the JS and CSS that is shown on every page (so we could just throw a link to the output in doc-head-close). Thoughts? 2016-02-07 18:53 GMT-07:00 Owen Leonard <oleon...@myacpl.org>: > I would very much like to start using some kind of build tool for > front-end assets in Koha. The ones I've encountered are Grunt and > Gulp: > > Grunt: http://gruntjs.com/ > Gulp: http://gulpjs.com/ > > I have some experience with Grunt, and have heard good things about > Gulp. Has anyone else used either in their non-Koha projects? > > Adopting them would introduce a little more complexity to the process > of making client-side changes to Koha, and to be honest I'm not sure > of the right way to incorporate the tools into our workflow. > > What I see as the advantages: > > - Automatic linting, minification, and concatenation of CSS and JS > - Potentially, automatic compression of images and contruction of image > sprites > - Overall performance improvements from the above > > Disadvantages: A new process to learn for those wanting to contribute > front-end modifications. A new set of dependencies for front-end > developers (Node.js etc). > > If there is interest I'd be happy to submit a patch introducing the > process to the OPAC as a demonstration. > > -- Owen > > -- > Web Developer > Athens County Public Libraries > http://www.myacpl.org > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Jesse Weaver
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