In my webdesign process i use jade, sass, coffe etc. to generate static files via a GruntJS watch task into a dev folder. And most of the times after the build process is done, a cms comes along and want some templates to work. Thats usually html files with some php/ruby/python tags in it. Let´s say it´s a Wordpress Theme.
The Problem is:
i have to modify my generated files in the dev folder directly
when im modifing my source jade, html, coffee - files, the dev folder would be overwritten
if i clone the static files and move them into the theme folder, i have to apply manually every change i made to the src/dev folder to the cloned theme template files.
that´s very odd. So i´am in need of a grunt task that maybe...
generate the templates for me out of the static files (via a json mapping file)
generate the templates directly from the src files via special attributes, comments or something similar
There´s just one thread i found where the user tries to accomplish the same with jsdom.
Can someone help me to find a existing tool that accomplish such a task or do i have to build it on my own?
Thanks, Robert
Check out grunt-usemin
Replaces references to non-optimized scripts or stylesheets into a set of HTML files (or any templates/views)
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I have been searching all over for information on where django-cms is storing the CSS and SCSS data for my site, which I am working on localhost. When I go to edit the CSS file directly, it has no effect, so I'm wondering what needs to be done to edit those CSS files. Obviously they have been loaded somewhere. How can they be reloaded, or in general what is the best practice for editing the CSS files?
Apparently I had to do this with both the style.scss and style.css files, which seem to have the same css classes. But even after editing both files, I had to refresh the site on my localhost a few times before I could see the changes. Frustrating, but it does work to edit the files directly in the static folder.
#Lawrence DeSouza At first you should mention which plugins and style frameworks you use.
If you are using some sort of a frontend framework like Bootstrap 4 your should compile its css from scss separately. You can do it right on the dev server in a separate directory outside your project dir and cloned from the official repository. Normally you would only need to change variables in "/bootstrap-4.x.y/scss/_variables.scss" file. On the next step you would compile your *.css files with "npm run dist" command and then copy compiled files from "/bootstrap-4.x.y/dist" directory to your "/projectname/appname/static/css" directory. The process is well-documented here. After copying changed files to your "static" folder you should run "python manage.py collectstatic" and refresh the page. If it's not working after refreshing the page in a browser (normally it should work) - restart the server. I am a bit biased towards Bootstrap, but the logic should be the same in your case.
Created a PHP project in Sublime Text 3 that holds PHP, CSS, JS, HTML, and some other files and folders. Other files may be .md, .txt, .ico, images and fonts (.woff, .ttf, ...).
Actually project is WordPress, but the solution should be for all PHP based projects, and specifically I am interested only to check specific folders inside of project (liek theme and plugin files). WordPress core is no interest for me to check.
I would like to detect Files with extensions (.php, .css, .js) that are unused. Is there a smart solution do detect these?
For instance CSS file is not used if no other files references it. The reference may came from another CSS file or from some PHP file, or even JS file.
I am not searching for a perfect solution, but for something that is close to detect these or even for an idea how I may think about these.
In WordPress (PHP) there are require and include instructions, and also wp_enqueue_script/styles that represent the mechanism how to reference files for instance.
So we could create a list of all PHP, CSS, JS files, and then based on file names search for these in the content of all other files. This would be a good start.
I'm importing a external web template I found in bootstrap to build a intro page. It has it's own js, css , html files.
However I found it is troublesome to transfer the beautiful external web to meteor format by hand. How you deal it smartly?
Now I only can figure out that replacing the html() when the intro is created. (although I still don't know how to do it exactly )
Template.intro.onCreated(function(){
$('html').html('the external code');
});
The simple and dirty way is to put all js, css, and html into public\ directory of your meteor app since this directoy is served "as is"
After that you can start converting your js files (taking into account local and global namespaces) and convert html files into Handlebars templates. Converted files you should move to client folder. Css files you can put in client folder to allow its minification and remove references to css files from Handlebars templates of html pages.
/public folder is usually used for static files like images. I suggest putting everything in a client folder. Usually there will be a lot of redundant js files coming with the template (bootstrap, jquery, fontawesome, etc). Best thing to do is use http://atmospherejs.com/ packages for those libraries and you will most likely be left with the templatename.js file which deals with the html within that template which you'll have to "meteorise"
We got a wrap bootstrap theme call ace admin. We are trying to integrate the theme into meteorjs.
The structure of the ace admin files folder is:
assets
avatars
css
fonts
images
img
js
build
demo
files
lib
several javascript files here (*.js)
dist
avatars
css
fonts
images
img
js
By following the tutorial here
I moved all the static content such as images, fonts, etc to client folder, javascript related folders - (assets, build, dist and all the related content) to public folder.
The problem that I am facing it - Meteor is not loading the javascript files inside the public folder.
Could someone help? Thanks.
Edit:
Ok. Finally. Thanks to #Ethaan. After spending almost 2 days figuring out what the problem- its with the javascript loading dependencies. If anyone is facing similar problems - make sure you load all the dependencies first and then load other files.
Do everything in the link provided in the above url that I mentioned and then move all the js folder files to client.
You should know some things about meteor structure, You can read docs
/lib folder its where you put the code you want to share between server/client, code like Routes,Collectios or other code ho is available on server/client(if you put code which use "window" object you will have issues, since windows objects its undefined to the server.)
/publicfolder here is where you put the images, logos, fonts, etc (you get the idea)
/client folder here is where you put the code which will be available only to the client
/server here is where you put the code only available on the server
I recommend you to read the docs, this was just a quickly explanation.
I have a template, one of those you could buy, with many css/js/images, very beautiful.
But I have to control these pages with Ruby on Rails, which I am still learning.
The template files have many directives for other files and folders.
I am trying to understand the Assets Pipeline and I am feeling that it looks not good.
There are dozens of css files, with the directives for many images that are placed in other folders.
I am very scared to be straightforward.
I am not the project owner, I just have these two requirements:
Use this template
Build the system in Ruby on Rails
Could someone indicate me the correct way to get along with this situation.
Thanks a lot.
There is no direct solution to this, but may be this can help: install_theme gem. I haven't used it but the link shows how to use an html/css/js theme in rails application.
Friends,
There is a solution for dummies!
I am feeling so fool.
Inside Rails folders, there is a folder called public
We just have to put our css/js/images inside this folder.
For example, in my template, the index.html was in the same folder then a folder called assets which has sub folder css, js, images
So, the files need for index.html were (relatively to it) in assets/css/... or assets/js/...
Thus, all I had to do was copy my whole folder assets to inside the public directory below Ruby on Rails files.
I found it here:
The Asset Pipeline
I am sorry for the dummy question.
Thanks a lot!