We have an old JS project which uses Gulp as its build tool. As our project is not too complex, we intend to replace Gulp plain NPM scripts and call the underlying tools (browserify, sass, uglifyjs, ...) directly as suggested in this blog .
We are 95% there. The only thing for which I have not yet found a solution is how to replace gulp-inject for compiling our frontend.html. The main source file main.html is a HTML skeleton with various HTML comments of the sort <!-- inject: path/to/file/whose/content/belongs/here.html -->.
Basically, I am looking for a NPM module which provides a simple CLI tool which takes main.html as an input, parses it for special comments and replaces those comments by the content of the designated files and writes the result into frontend.html.
Any suggestions?
I have already tried to search https://www.npmjs.com/ for "bundle html", "inject html", etc., but all I get are modules which dynamically inject HTML into a HTML DOM at runtime in the browser. That is not what I am looking for.
I am running into the problem that I have a 'main layout' which gets extended by other pug files, defining the layout for specific sites.
Example:
main.pug
Path: /we [we.pug extends main.pug]
However, when I start to have routes like /we/are/nice/because which are just specifications of /we and I would like to use the same main.pug, I run into the problem that by the way NodeJS renders the pug files, the src/href paths of JS and CSS includes are off (eg: https://localhost:3001/we/are/nice/script.js won't be found because it is supposed to be at localhost:3001/script.js)
Is there a simple way to fix this issue, or do I need specific main.pug files for all path-depths ?
Have you tried pointing to absolute paths? So /script.js, instead of script.js, in an link/href attribute. This assumes, of course, that the files are served from a server like NodeJS (not by the filesystem).
Is there a way to apply Liferay's built-in javascript minimizing and bundling capability to the javascript I've included in my theme? I have javascript.fast.load=true in portal-ext.properties and Liferay's javascript is getting bundled & minified in everything.jsp as expected. Also, all portlet javascript that is included via a portlet's liferay-portal.xml file is getting minified as expected. However, I've got many javascript files that are included in my theme because they are utilized on every page and I would like them to get minimized and bundled into everything.jsp along with all the Liferay portal javascript. I've tried the approach suggested by this question, but I think this will only work with a hook because the MinifyFilter will look for files to minify & bundle within the context of the portal web app, i.e. <TOMCAT>/webapps/ROOT. Is there a way I can specify a path to files in a different web app (the theme in this case) as the javascript.bundle.dir parameter? In other words, something like javascript.bundle.dir[javascript.jquery.files]=/<theme-path>/js. I've tried many variations and combinations of javascript.bundle.ids, javascript.bundle.dependencies, etc. to no avail. I know I can get around the problem by putting the javascript in a hook or putting it in portlet and embedding it in the theme but I'd really like to just keep the javascript in the theme. Is there a reasonable way to accomplish this?
There doesn't seem to be a good way to include javascript files from the theme with the minified and bundled Liferay javascript. While you can define a javascript bundle in portal-ext.properties that includes your files, you can't order the dependencies the way you need to in order to get everything to work using only configuration. You can configure the "everything" bundle to depend on your custom bundle but that's not very useful. It would be far more useful if you could configure Liferay to use your custom bundle as the new "everything" bundle and tell Liferay that your bundle depends on Liferay's "everything" bundle. However, the actual bundle ids that are included are hard-coded in Liferay's top_js.jspf file. So the only way to get everything to work would be to override Liferay's definition of javascript.everything.files to include both Liferay's files and your custom javascript. This doesn't seem like a very good solution since it tampers with Liferay's list of included javascript which would certainly be a pain when you need to upgrade Liferay. As Olaf suggested, you can minify and bundle the js yourself and just include it in the portal_normal template. That is a very reasonable solution and what I would normally recommend. Unfortunately I was in a situation where my customer was requesting that all the files be bundled in one file and we are not allowed to modify the build process.
Hook Workaround
There is a workaround using a hook that I don't necessarily recommend but it does accomplish the goal of getting all javascript minimized and bundled along with Liferay's javascript. The basic process is to move the javascript from the theme into a hook, configure a new bundle in portal-ext.properties that includes all of your files, then create a jsp hook for top_js.jspf that includes your new bundle instead of the hard-coded javascript.everything.files or javascript.barebones.files bundles. The steps are:
Move your javascript files into a hook project and place them under html/js. This will cause
the files to be copied to the javascript directory under the portal
web app, i.e. <TOMCAT_HOME>/ROOT/html/js. This is where the Liferay
MinifyFilter looks for javascript files to minify & bundle.
Define a javascript bundle in portal-ext.properties that references
all of your javascript files that need to be included in the bundle
created by the MinifyFilter. Your portal-ext.properties file should
look something like this:
minifier.enabled=true
javascript.fast.load=true
javascript.my.js.files =\
jquery.1.11.1,\
my-js-lib.js,\
my-other-js-lib.js
javascript.bundle.ids=\
javascript.barebone.files,\
javascript.everything.files,\
javascript.my.js.files
javascript.bundle.dir[javascript.my.js.files]=/html/js
# our bundle depends on all the files in the "everything" bundle
javascript.bundle.dependencies[javascript.my.js.files]=javascript.everything.files
Create a JSP hook for top_js.jspf. This file is under
<TOMCAT_HOME>/ROOT/html/common/themes. It is the file that includes
either the barebones.jsp or everything.jsp based on whether the user
is authenticated (if the user is authenticated they get
everything.jsp otherwise barebones.jsp is included). Replace the
references to the javascript.everything.files and/or
javascript.barebones.files bundles with a reference to your new
bundle based on your requirements. For example, if you only want to
include your javascript when the user is authenticated you just have
to replace references to javascript.everything.files.
Specifically, you make the following changes:
This line:
<script src="<%= HtmlUtil.escape(PortalUtil.getStaticResourceURL(request, themeDisplay.getCDNDynamicResourcesHost() + themeDisplay.getPathJavaScript() + "/everything.jsp", "minifierBundleId=javascript.everything.files", javaScriptLastModified)) %>" type="text/javascript"></script>
is changed to this:
<script src="<%= HtmlUtil.escape(PortalUtil.getStaticResourceURL(request, themeDisplay.getCDNDynamicResourcesHost() + themeDisplay.getPathJavaScript() + "/everything.jsp", "minifierBundleId=javascript.my.js.files", javaScriptLastModified)) %>" type="text/javascript"></script>
and this line:
javaScriptFiles = JavaScriptBundleUtil.getFileNames(PropsKeys.JAVASCRIPT_EVERYTHING_FILES);
is changed to this:
javaScriptFiles = JavaScriptBundleUtil.getFileNames("javascript.my.js.files");
* Non-Global Hook Caveat *
If you are putting the javascript and top_js.jspf hooks in a project with other hooks and the project is configured to use non-global jsp hooks, i.e. <custom-jsp-global>false</custom-jsp-global> the solution becomes more complicated. This is because setting <custom-jsp-global>true</custom-jsp-global> makes Liferay rename your hook jsp files rather than renaming the portal's jsp files. For example, if custom-jsp-global is set to true, which is the default setting, then when I make a hook for a page called top_js.jspf, the portal will rename the original top_js.jspf file to top_js.portal.jsp and my hook file will be used instead of the original. However, when custom-jsp-global is set to false then the original file stays intact and the jsp hook file is renamed to something that includes the name of the hook like top_js.my-hook.jspf. This is a problem when you're creating a hook for included files such as top_js.jspf because the file that includes top_js.jspf will still reference the old file, not the hook which is named top_js.my-hook.jspf. This means you have to also create a hook for the file that includes your hook. Likewise, if that file is included by another file you have to make hook for that file and so on until you reach the top level page. So, in the example of trying to create a hook for top_js.jspf we have to also do the following:
Create a hook for top_head.jspf and replace the reference to top_js.jspf with a reference to our hook, top_js.my-hook.jspf.
So this line
<%# include file="/html/common/themes/top_js.jspf" %>
becomes this
<%# include file="/html/common/themes/top_js.my-hook.jspf" %>
The top_head.jspf file is actually included by the theme in
portal_normal.vm using a Velocity variable that is initialized in
init.vm on the following line:
You need to assign $top_head_include to the top_head.my-hook.jspf hook in the theme's init_custom.vm, like this:
#set ($top_head_include = "$dir_include/common/themes/top_head.my-hook.jsp")
Your Theme has access to all of the HTML the portal generates. While you might need one extra file to be loaded (css gets minified for the whole theme anyway), you can easily add all of the (already) minified js files to your theme and include them in your templates/portal-normal.ftl implementation.
It would be as easy as having this section in portal-normal.ftl:
<head>
<title>${the_title} - ${company_name}</title>
<meta content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" name="viewport" />
${theme.include(top_head_include)}
<script src="${javascript_folder}/my-minified-javascript.js"/>
</head>
Note: All but the <script> line is already in the default ftl file. This way you'll end up with two js files being loaded (the barebones or everything, plus your own), but that's not too bad. You can also add the minification to your theme's build process, so that you don't have to maintain the minified code manually.
Another alternative, which I haven't tried, is examining the use of Liferay's javascript minifier (e.g. in webapps/ROOT/html/common/themes/tom_js.jsp) to see how to utilize it to dynamically minify your files.
For completeness reason (maybe it helps someone else) I'm leaving my first answer here, which you couldn't use as you say in the first comment:
There's a section in portal.properties, to be overloaded in portal-ext.properties with this heading:
##
## JavaScript
##
#
# Set a list of JavaScript files that will be loaded automatically in
# /html/common/themes/top_js.jsp.
#
# There are two lists of files specified in the properties
# "javascript.barebone.files" and "javascript.everything.files".
#
# As the name suggests, the barebone list is the minimum list of JavaScript
# files required for most cases. The everything list includes everything
# else not listed in the barebone list.
#
# The two lists of files exist for performance reasons because
# unauthenticated users usually do not utilize all the JavaScript that is
# available. See the property "javascript.barebone.enabled" for more
# information on the logic of when the barebone list is used and when the
# everything list is used and how to customize that logic.
#
# The list of files are also merged and packed for further performance
# improvements. See the property "javascript.fast.load" for more details.
#
e.g. configure javascript.everything.files (the default is below that comment, for brevity I'm not copying that here)
I am starting to learn Sails (0.9.7, node 0.10.16) and running through the sailscasts episodes. I am also trying to use jade as I do so. Where I am stuck now is that sails is not finding views/layout.jade. I backed out all the jade stuff and redid with ejs and sails is not finding views/layout.ejs.
As a last resort, I cloned activtyoverlord (the sailscasts app) and when I sails lift activityoverlord does not find its views/layout.ejs.
Any suggests as to what I might be doing wrong?
I'm not a jade user, however, I think you need to put extends ../layout at the top of your index.jade file to use layout.jade.
Also, I think both the layout.jade and index.jade have tabs and spaces (I don't think you can use both). I took out the tabs and added spaces in your layout.ejs file.
I created a project from scratch, changed engine to jade in config/views.js but left layout to the default value.
Also, I used these tags in layout.jade:
// SCRIPTS
// SCRIPTS END
and
// STYLES
// STYLE END
Grunt then puts the appropriate paths for javascript and styles in your layout file. I couldn't get index.jade into the layout.jade but I don't know enough about jade to determine what's wrong.
Here's a link to the repo I made: https://github.com/irlnathan/sails-answers-jade
I have an index.html file that I'm trying to render using dustjs-linkedin but get the error:
500 Error: Template Not Found: C:\Users\Gilbert\WebstormProjects\NodeOfGames\views\index.html
The file index.html is definitely there. I'm using app.engine('html', require('dustjs-linkedin').render); to render .html files with dust.
dust.render looks in dust.cache for the named template, which in your case is named
C:\Users\Gilbert\WebstormProjects\NodeOfGames\views\index.html
dust.render only renders compiled templates - which are automatically put in dust.cache upon load.
I don't think the template is in there. if it is, it probably isn't named with the above name.
what you may want is dust.renderSource instead. even so, you need to pass in a context and a callback - I'm not sure how that works in express.