Yeah, that would be a great idea...it would drastically reduce initial load time for the UI.
OK, I've created a new branch called ui-css-framework. Right now all it does is rename cloudstack3.css -> cloudstack3.scss. This of course will make the UI have no style if running right now, but once a SASS compiler is working then it should compile cloudstack3.css in the same folder. Feel free to use this branch to test out any build modifications for SASS/Grunt...let me know if any code changes are necessary. Thanks! Brian -----Original Message----- From: Shiva Teja [mailto:shivate...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:32 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] CSS framework for CloudStack UI Another positive side of using grunt would be to minimize and package javascript. Currently, we load a huge number of javascript files separately. It'd be great if we can minimize them into a single file during build. Also, if we were to add any UI tests using libraries like jasmine, grunt makes it easy automate them. Shiva Teja On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Brian Federle <brian.fede...@citrix.com>wrote: > Yeah, I'm definitely thinking the newer spec, which is better for us > anyway since it is backwards-compatible with existing CSS. > > What I'll do is setup a dummy branch, which basically renames > cloudstack3.css to cloudstack.scss or something like that, without > much modification right now, and then see if it can be converted to the .css. > > Re: NPM, -- that is actually why I suggested the SASS plugin instead > of the vanilla version of sass (installed via gem), since it would > prevent people from having to install yet another dependency on their > system, since I believe all required libs (including jRuby) are > packaged in the jar, which may eliminate the need for Grunt for now? > > -Brian > ________________________________________ > From: Chip Childers [chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:01 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Rayees Namathponnan; Frank Zhang; Animesh Chaturvedi > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] CSS framework for CloudStack UI > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:53:18AM +0530, Amit Das wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > I agree with Edison on usage of grunt & using maven-exec to call grunt. > > > > Will wait for your repository that has your experiments. > > I believe setting up the Maven tasks will be a one-time setting & > > should work without issues. > > IIRC, Grunt is installed via NPM. So does that pull in a bunch of new > developer requirements to build the project? Is there a standalone > installation for Grunt to lighten the build dependency chain? > > How about using SassC? [1] > > Let's be sure to use the scss spec, not the sass older style (HAML > inspired)! That appears to be Hampton's focus these days [2]. > > -chip > > [1] https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc > [2] Per intro on http://sass-lang.com/ >
