Cantina: Assets

Asset aggregator and minifier for Cantina applications.

Note: Currently very specific to a particular use-case (RequireJS/Marionette/Plain CSS).

Provides

• app.assets - The Assets API

Configuration

Specify your app's CSS and JS files via styles and scripts keys, respectively, in your conf. Then setup how cantina-assets should handle them:

{
  "assets": {
    "optimize": "enabled" // Will run all optimizers on `app.start()`
    "css": {
      "foo": { // Custom namespaces allow for multiple aggregates.
        "root": "/path/to/dir",
        "dirs": [ // Additional directories from which to fetch "/public" files.
          "/path/to/assets",
          "/another/path"
        ],
        "aggregate": true,
        "prefix": true,
        "minify": true,
        "serve": true
        "match": [ // Define an array of RegEx patterns to match files against.
          "^/foo"
        ],
        "exclude": [ // Define an array of RegEx patterns to exclude files.
          "^do",
          "not",
          "want$"
        ]
      }
    },
    "js": {
      "bar": {
        "aggregate": true,
        "minify": true,
        "serve": true
        "match": [
          "^/bar"
        ]
      }
    },
    "templates": {
      "baz": {
        "aggregate": true,
        "minify": false
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage

If app.conf.get('assets:optimize') === 'enabled' then your assets will be run through the optimization steps as soon as app.start() is called, respecting all flags per namespace.

API

app.assets.[css|js|templates].aggregate (namespace, cb)

Aggregates asset files into one file, as per the conf's namespace definition.

app.assets.[css|js|templates].minify (namespace, cb)

Minifies asset files (only applies if they are aggregated as well).

app.assets.css.prefix (namespace, cb)

Adds certain vendor-prefixes to CSS attributes (only applies if they are aggregated as well).

app.assets.[css|js|templates].serve (namespace, cb)

Serves the optimized assets via dish (only applies if they are aggregated as well).

app.assets.[css|js|templates].[aggregate|minify|prefix|serve]All (cb)

Runs modifier on all namespaces.

app.assets.[css|js|templates].optimize (cb)

Runs all modifiers on all namespaces.

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