On 17/11/14 09:53, Martin Geisler wrote: [...]
> As Richard said, npm and bower are not competitors. You use npm to > install bower, and you use bower to download Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap > and other static files. These are the static files that you will want to > include when you finally deploy the web app to your server. > > Before using Bower, people would simply download Angular from the > projects homepage and check it into version control. Bower is not doing > much, but using it avoids this bad practice. > > There is often a kind of "compilation step" between bower downloading a > dependency and the deployment on the webserver: minification and > compression of the JavaScript and CSS. Concatenating and minifying the > files serve to reduce the number of HTTP requests -- which can make an > app much faster. > > Finally, you use Grunt/Gulp to execute other tools during development. > These tools could be a local web server, it could be running the unit > tests. Grunt is only a convenience tool here -- think of it as a kind of > Makefile that tells you how to lunch various tasks. Thank you for your explanations. The way I see it, we would need: - Bower in the development environment, - Grunt both in the development environment and packaged (to run tests, etc.), - Bower configuration file in two copies, one for global-requirements, and one for the Horizon's local requirements. Plus a gate job that makes sure no new library or version gets included in the Horizon's before getting into the global-requirements, - A tool, probably a script, that would help packaging the Bower packages into DEB/RPM packages. I suspect the Debian/Fedora packagers already have a semi-automatic solution for that. - A script that would generate a file with all the paths to those packaged libraries, that would get included in Horizon's settings.py What do you think? -- Radomir Dopieralski _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
