How do I change the bower_components directory to something custom when using grunt for development? I want to set a custom folder such as scripts for all my libraries.
Add and use .bowerrc file to define bower_components custom path. (http://bower.io/docs/config/)
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I have a project that uses gulp and I need to use splide js to create a slider, i used NPM to install splidejs and now I need to include splidejs CSS file to my main.scss however whatevere I do to get to node_modules file from my main.scss is not working. In webpack we use ~to get to node_modules but how can i do it in gulp to get there?
I have tried with ~ and with node_modules path and directory in project but nothing works
In Gulp, you can use the gulp.src() function to specify a file path that includes the node_modules directory. This function allows you to specify the source files that you want to include in your Gulp task.
For example, if you want to include all the JavaScript files in the node_modules directory in a Gulp task, you could use the following code:
gulp.src('node_modules/**/*.js')
.pipe(someGulpPlugin())
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
This will include all the JavaScript files in the node_modules directory and its subdirectories in the Gulp task. The ** wildcard indicates that all subdirectories should be included, and the *.js pattern indicates that only JavaScript files should be included.
You can also use other file globs or patterns to specify the specific files that you want to include in your Gulp task. For more information on using file globs with Gulp, you can refer to the Gulp documentation.
I installed Bootstrap CSS with SASS from the following repo:
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass
I ran the command "bower install bootstrap-sass" on the command line and this successfully installed the folder bower_components on my project folder. (Incidentally - I have nothing else present yet, I want to learn to bootstrap the CSS compiling first).
OK, here's what I want to accomplish:
I want to be able to add .scss files to the folder I create called resources/assets/sass/
I want to provision/manage so that .scss files I add to this directory are in turn compiled to public/build/css/that_file_name.css
More practically, I would like to compile all of the .scss files into one large .css file.
My question(s) are:
What does the compiling?
How do I instruct it to compile the .scss files in the folder above in the public/build/css/ folder?
Must I configure new .scss files or can I set it so as to just add them to that sass folder?
Bonus, how do I tell it to minify the output file, or not (so I can experiment with both ways)?
What does the compiling?
Compiling Sass files transforms stylesheets with Sass-specific syntax like selector nesting and mixins into normal CSS that can be parsed by browsers.
How do I instruct it to compile the .scss files in the folder above in the public/build/css/ folder?
Since you're already using Bower which is a Node.js package, I assume that you have no problem using the Node.js package node-sass instead of the original Ruby version.
First, install the package using npm i -D node-sass. Then, create a new script inside your project's package.json:
"compile-sass": "node-sass resources/assets/sass/main.scss public/build/css/main.css"
main.scss is now your entry point where you import Bootstrap and your other stylesheets.
// I don't know whether this path is correct
// Just find out the location of "_bootstrap.scss" and then create the relative path
#import "../../../bower_components/bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/_bootstrap.scss";
/* Your custom SCSS */
Finally, to actually run the compilation, execute npm run compile-sass in your terminal.
Must I configure new .scss files or can I set it so as to just add them to that sass folder?
Since you never tell node-sass to "compile everything inside this folder" and instead use an entry point file (main.js), when you want to include a new file you simply add an #import directive with a relative path to it.
Bonus, how do I tell it to minify the output file, or not (so I can experiment with both ways)?
To minify the resulting main.css file, I recommend csso. You can install its CLI package using npm i -D csso-cli and then add another script to your package.json:
"minify-css": "csso public/build/css/main.css public/build/css/main.min.css"
You can then run that script using npm run minify-css. The minified file will be outputted as main.min.css.
For all the question asked, the answer can be found above. But if you are just looking to compile .scss file to .css using command line, use below,
sass source/stylesheets/index.scss build/stylesheets/index.css
Make sure you have "node JS/npm" and Sass compiler installed.
If not, use this to install Node.js and npm - https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
And use this to install Sass - https://sass-lang.com/install
Enjoy ;)
I would like to add my own css file into a Jhipster project.
I put those files in src\main\webapp\assets\styles\
The gruntfile.js should be able to add those files into the depencies am I right ?
But they added ... any idea why ?
Thanks
Yes if you put a file into this directory, it will belong to your project (that's kind of obvious, as it's the CSS folder of your project).
I guess that what you want to do is use this file inside your index.html file. The normal grunt wiredep command works only if you use Bower, which is our JavaScript/CSS dependency package manager. In your case, you are just adding the file manually, so you are not using Bower: just add your file inside the index.html file, as would do in a normal project, outside of the Bower tags, and you will be able to use it.
Can I compile scss from project folder created with foundation new project with sass?
Why js folder had only app.js file, should I move files from bower_components/foundation/jsto (root)/js or link to their folder?
Should user css settings includes in app.css or custom file that includes app.css?
In bootstrap sass files collected in one folder, why in foundation scss folder had only app.scss and other files in bower components.
When you install Foundation this way, you use the SCSS folder created that contains the _settings.scss & app.scss. The app.scss is what you tend to use as your base SCSS file to compile from so you'd include all your other SCSS files to this one. You can move this file to elsewhere if you please but move the config.rb with it and make sure the add_import_path works from where you move it to.
You don't need to move the files, everything in bower_components should never be touched or moved, they are there so they can be upgraded when necessary, you shouldn't have to touch base Foundation files.
I said before you should use that, but you could include the app.scss into a custom scss file but it's better to have control of the Foundation imports in 1 file, in my opinion.
For the same reason i mentioned in 2, so you don't touch them and Bower can easily update them if you require.
If I install any grunt plugin, it is added to a folder named "node_modules" in the root of my project dir per default.
My question: is it possible to move this whole folder (and therefore all plugins) to another location (but still within my project folder), let's say to "build/node_modules" ?
Of course, I still want to be able to run grunt from anywhere in my project hierarchy after this change.
Nope, that's a feature of the Node.JS core files. In the case you don't know, Node.JS is the platform which Grunt was built.
All require() calls which don't point to an absolute file or start with ./ will try to find modules inside node_modules folders.
You can use symbolic link ln -s /original_node_modules_path/node_modules ./node_modules