This is a noob question.
I would like to use grunt.js as a build tool for my web project. Can use grunt.js to validate my HTML/CSS files? Do you have an example of such a grunt.js file?
There is another plugin that seems to be updated more often and does not require java. grunt-html-validation. It has a number of options and has been working great for me. You can install and use it like this:
npm install grunt-html-validation --save-dev
Then put something like this in the initconfig of your Gruntfile.js
and this in appropriate places in your Gruntfile.js
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-html-validation');
grunt.registerTask("default", ["validation"]);
There is also a number of useful options including the ability to relax errors based on a regular expression (could be useful for AngularJS for example) and the ability to save a report.
You can use the grunt plugin grunt-html. Beware, you will need Java on your computer to use it. It works well for me.
As of now there seem to be two popular HTML validation plugins:
grunt-html-validation
grunt-html
grunt-html-validation uses the W3C Markup Validation Service and grunt-html uses a local copy of the java-based The Nu HTML Checker.
They both work well and have very similar options so it comes down to whether you want to wait for an external service call or wait for a local java app.
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I am trying to debug a Twig template in my Drupal 9 site. I am using VSCode as my IDE and using Xdebug for debugging. I have setup/configured the installation based on the instructions outlined here -
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/development-tools/configuring-visual-studio-code
I am able to set breakpoints in PHP files (step thru and watch variables successfully) however I just can't seem to do the same for Twig template files (just so I can see what variables I have access to in that template). What I mean by when I say I am unable to add the breakpoint is that clicking on the gutters of a Twig file within VSCode does not result in addition of any breakpoint.
I'd like to take advantage of Xdebug instead of using debugging functions like breakpoint() and dump() offered by the Devel and Twig_xdebug modules within Drupal. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong or have missed a step but I can't seem to figure out what it is.
Some more details on my env:
a local Drupal 9 setup on a Mac OS that uses PHP 7.4 and nginx as its webserver.
Xdebug (v3.1.1) is installed and enabled (verified via phpinfo() output)
VSCode (1.63.0) installed with all of the supporting Drupal and PHP extensions outlined in the above article (specifically php-debug) have been installed.
I am using the default launch configuration to Run my debug session in VSCode.
I'd appreciate any pointers on what I am doing wrong and/or what I can try. Also, I hope I provided enough info on my use case.
Twig compiles the template files into PHP files. You need to set breakpoints in these Twig generated PHP files in order to debug them.
On this page, I also see that there is caching involved, which you will need to disable. That documentation seems to be quite comprehensive.
Came here looking for an answer to this very question.
You may be interested to know that there are a couple of ways to achieve this. You can either use a built-in feature of the devel.module (see: https://www.drupal.org/node/2788089) or there is also a contrib module called twig_xdebug, which lives here: https://www.drupal.org/project/twig_xdebug
I think the mechanism behind both of these is probably very similar, to be honest. The latter of those links provides further links to several guides on the subject matter. HTH! :)
I am configuring grunt for SAPUI5 project. I can configure grunt taks for minify, test and etc. I see there is grunt-ui5 grunt plugin but I am not able to understand what exactly this plugin is doing or useful to SAPUI5 projects.
Thanks
The grunt-openui5 plugin by SAP is documented at github.
It can be used to build UI5 themes and package components and libraries into preload-files.
UI5 tries to load most of the modules of a component or library with a single request from a component-preload.json / library-preload.json file. If it cannot find a preload file, it has to request all modules individually resulting in many many requests and thus poor performance.
grunt-openui5 is used to create these preload files. It also minifies the code while doing so.
The grunt-ui5 plugin is something inofficial which seems to do similar things. You would have to ask the author directly to get more information. I recommend to use the official grunt-openui5 plugin.
For ui5 applications it's not common to use the grunt task for minification , instead we use the grunt-openui5 task. It will create the preload file, which is a json object that contains the whole app.
{
"version":"0.0",
"name":"app name",
"modules":[
"control1": "code for control1",
"control2": "code for control1",
]}
When control1 is required, ui5 just uses the preload to get the code for control1. In this way, ui5 avoids triggering a new request. Anyway, If the preload file is not present, it will have to request control1.js .
If you want to see a real preload file, open any ui5 app and go to the network tab of the browser.
Using the grunt-openui5 plugin for grunt, it will do the work for you, and will give you as a result a library.css, rtl, library-parameters.json (same thing, but for themes) and the preload.json (for the js files).
Instead of using grunt-ui5, I would recommend you to use the the oficial plugin grunt-openui5!
grunt-openui5 is a really amazing grunt plugin created by bunch of SAPUI5 core dev team ;)
It mainly allow you to do 4 things:
create Component-preload.js (optimized and minified version of your app)
create library-preload.js (optimized and minified version of a custom library)
create a custom theme
create a local web server to test your app locally
I've covered it a little bit on my blog post Custom Control 101 if you want to check it out.
I'm using it in daily basis and you can read some of my blog posts about it.
Just a small remark: in the future, consider switching from grunt to gulp, as gulp is newer and faster. For SAPUI5 there are packages with same functionality in gulp, as ingrunt.
I'm trying to install Basscss CSS framework in my webpack/react app, I'm fairly new to this workflow.
When I run 'npm i basscss' I'm able to add:
require('basscss/css/basscss.css');
To my app entrypoint. However, I now need to add basscss-addons for further styling - so is the correct approach to add a require line for every single file in basscss-addons? Each addon is a separate file, and each addon's folder structure seems to be different.
It seems like there must be an easier way.
There is a method in this article that works, but it relies on cssnext and it throws warnings saying it's deprecated and that you need to upgrade to postcss instead.
So you would need to use postcss, postcss-basscss and postcss-import, I guess, but I couldn't make it work efficiently. I'd love to hear from someone who has a valid implementation with postcss...
I've being using JSLint for some time now and recently found JSHint. Reading the docs I learned that it can be configured using a .jshintrc file but I could not found if it's possible to generate this file using the CLI.
Is there a flag in the CLI to generate such file (preferably with all the options set) or another tool that allows me to do that?
Not really going to answer your question but I found the JShint I use on some article about code style guides, in a free HTML eBook SpeakingJS - Style guide.
They talk about Google's guideline, AirBNB's guideline, jQuery's guideline, and others, most of the time those links provide its a ready to use jshint file ... may be this could help you :).
If you want to generate your own JSHint, I don't know if you are familiar with Yeoman but this project is exactly what you re looking for : https://github.com/losingkeys/generator-jshint
After generating it, any text editor can be used to edit such a simple file.
Problem:
I have been trying to integrate minification of javascript and css files in our VS2010 (.net 4.) projects. From what I hear, .net 4.5 and VS2012 will have minification build into the editor, so it will be as easy as setting a flag it will work. Unfortunately we are sill on VS2010 (.net 4.0).
Let me explain what I want to do and what I dont want to do.
I dont want to do big setups with classes/config file(s)/etc just to minify because all that stuff will have to be loaded on our build machine and even the build xml files might have to be modifies to make it work. Also, once we go to vs2012 and .net 4.5 all these configs/classes/etc will have to be discarded because vs2012 will have the build in functionality.
Here is what I think might be the best option. Since I am using the ScriptManager and it can already pull either a .debug.js (non-minified) or a .js (minified) script based on the build type, it seems all i need to do is to have some sort of (pre?) build event that will re-build a non-minified .js file into a minified one. Obviously the build event will have to call a minication module which would have to be installed on local computer (the YUI Compressor seems very nice). The module would update the minified .js file.
I have been reading about this, but I am getting a little bit lost. There are a lot of third party tools with bunch of setup and classes which I do not want to add.
Did anyone do something similar as I explained about?
If not what is the next best simple solution?
(By the way, if you are going to say move to VS2012/4.5, thats not a solution for us at this point)
Solution:
Thank you Parv Sharma for your answer.
I would just like to explain what I did so that it may help someone in the future.
I installed the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
Created a batch file to add minifer to ENVIRONMENT PATH variables: setx path /m "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft Ajax Minifier"
Added the following pre-build events into my project:
ajaxmin $(ProjectDir)Script.js -out $(ProjectDir)Script.min.js -clobber
If Script.min.js does not exist, it will be created by the build event, but it will not be added to the project (not sure how to do that through the events).
When you add a new script file, mynewscript.js, just create a second blank file called mynewscript.min.js and add an pre-build event for it.
Using this approach the only thing you have to do to the build machine is run the Microsoft Ajax Minifier setup package and the batch file. Thats it everything else will be part of your pre-build events.
what you are looking for is probably this
http://ajaxmin.codeplex.com/documentation
by using this you would be able to use this third party tool as the minifier
after downloading the tool you have 2 options
1. edit the MSBUILD file to include building the js as per build event
OR 2. to attach this tool to VS and assign a key compbination to it.. this way you would be able to minify whenever you want just like we do F5 OR Cntrl-Shift-B
Attaching to VS is easy just to to external tools and in the Tools menu and add this tool with the required params