Apple

On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Johann Werner wrote:

Am 13.03.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Ramsey Gurley:

On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

A mechanism to help processing web resources. It is hard to use tools like LESS or JS minification with the current set of tools.

I think this means it would be cool to have a preprocessor in our build.xml files to minify js and process css stylesheets. I agree, that would be awesome. Surely someone has done this already. Perhaps that someone could post an example so we don't have to figure it out from scratch :-)

to minify js and css add this to your build.xml:

<target name="minify" if="yuicompress.available">
<echo message="Minification of CSS files." />

<apply executable="java" dir="${dest.dir}" relative="true">
<fileset dir="${dest.dir}" includes="**/WebServerResources/**/*.css"/>
<arg line="-jar"/>
<arg path="${yuicompress.jar}"/>
<srcfile/>
<arg line="--charset"/>
<arg value="utf-8"/>
<arg line="-o"/>
<targetfile/>
<mapper type="identity"/>
</apply>
<replace dir="${dest.dir}" includes="**/WebServerResources/**/*.css" token=";}" value="}"/>

<echo message="Minification of JS files." />

<apply executable="java" dir="${dest.dir}" relative="true">
<fileset dir="${dest.dir}" includes="**/WebServerResources/**/*.js"/>
<arg line="-jar"/>
<arg path="${yuicompress.jar}"/>
<srcfile/>
<arg line="--charset"/>
<arg value="utf-8"/>
<arg line="-o"/>
<targetfile/>
<mapper type="identity"/>
</apply>
</target>

though that should be done only for deployment (i.e. building Wonder with that would make debugging js code in Eclipse hard).

Cool. So you would just include that in the app's build.xml and yuicompress.jar in the classpath? Maybe we could add that into the project templates and drop yuicompress into ERJars?

References:
	>Missing details in improvements comments (From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Missing details in improvements comments (From: Ramsey Gurley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Missing details in improvements comments (From: Johann Werner <email@hidden>)