This is definitely a great idea. Will it be feasible to decouple the front-end build from server-side build as mentioned in the following link: http://addyosmani.com/blog/making-maven-grunt/
Regards, Amit Kumar Das *CloudByte Inc.* <http://www.cloudbyte.com/> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > +1 to that definitely! > > > > The only problem I cannot handle is integrating the SASS compiler (which > converts .scss->.css) into the UI build phase. I've found a maven plugin at > https://github.com/Jasig/sass-maven-plugin, so if anyone wants to tackle > that it would be awesome. > > > Below is a meer suggestion, I've only read about it and never done it. > I believe you are able to chain grunt into the maven life cycle. This > would allow us to do various things with the front end code. This > includes but is not limited to: > > - JSHint > - Unit tests via xyz(suggesting QUnit or Jasmine) framework > - Static analysis of the javascript with Plato > - Compiling SASS + LESS > - Uglifying/Minifying > - Optimise images(png crush etc.) > - Dependency management of 3rd party js libs > > It would supply us with a bunch nicer build process for the UI > elements of Cloudstack. However it would add a dependency of nodejs to > the build process. >
