Adrian,
Sounds pretty cool! Unfortunately there's one missing link here -
QxCompiler is not a Grunt task yet.
BTW, is Grunt capable of running two or more background tasks
simultaneously? eg. QxCompiler job + web server
Or do we need to launch them in separate Grunt instances?
Dimitri
В Пн, 22/02/2016 в 18:38 +0100, Adrian Haarbach пишет:
> Concerning the webserver, I am using Grunt and the grunt-http-server
> plugin, which is based on node.js and much faster than python's
> SimpleHttpServer in serving files.
> Also, it allows to specify a proxy where it redirects all requests it
> cannot resolve locally (e.g requests to tomcat). Really useful when
> developing the web part of an application while the backend runs
> somewhere remotely.
>
> qooxdoo already comes with a package.json and Gruntfile.js by default
> now, I just edited them as below to make the webserver work:
>
> package.json:
> {
> "name": "project",
> "version": "0.1.0",
> "repository": {},
> "devDependencies": {
> "grunt": "~0.4.2",
> "grunt-http-server": "^1.13.0"
> }
> "license": "Apache-2.0"
> }
>
>
> Gruntfile.js:
> module.exports = function(grunt) {
> grunt.initConfig({
> 'http-server': {
>
> 'dev': {
>
> // the server root directory
> root: ".",
>
> // the server port, can also be written as a function,
> e.g.
> // port: function() { return 8282; }
> port: 9999,
>
> // the host ip address
> // If specified to, for example, "127.0.0.1" the server
> will only be available on that ip.
> // Specify "0.0.0.0" to be available everywhere
> host: "127.0.0.1",
>
> // server default file extension
> ext: "html",
>
> // run in parallel with other tasks
> runInBackground: false,
>
> // Proxies all requests which can't be resolved locally
> to the given url
> // Note this this will disable 'showDir'
> proxy: "http://mybackendserver.com";,
> }
> }
> });
> // // 3. Where we tell Grunt we plan to use this plug-in.
> grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-http-server');
> // // 4. Where we tell Grunt what to do when we type "grunt" into
> the terminal.
> grunt.registerTask('default', ['http-server:dev']);
> };
>
> Then to install all dependencies and run, just do:
> npm install -g grunt-cli
> npm install //installs dependencies listed in package.json into
> node_modules folder
> grunt //runs default http-server:dev job
>
>
> The recompiler and reloader for dev jobs and additionally
> concatenator and uglifiers/minifiers for dist jobs can also be added
> as simple grunt tasks. There are lots of plugins for these tasks.
>
> Looking forward to ditch ./generate.py in favor of a simple and
> faster grunt job!
>
> Adrian
>
>
> 2016-02-22 17:58 GMT+01:00 Dimitri <mi...@cargosoft.ru>:
> > Feature request: background recompiler + web server + reloader
> >
> > In qooxdoo development, it's common practice to use a micro HTTP
> > server to run applications, eg. python -m SimpleHTTPServer,
> > generate.py source-server, editor/IDE embedded etc. This is because
> > of limitations of file:/// addressing scheme and CORS/XHR issues
> > that it has.
> > QxCompiler is going to introduce another background process for
> > live code transpiling. Why not combining these two, so that the
> > developer doesn't have to launch two separate processes?
> > It should be pretty easy to serve static contents from Node. In the
> > future, automatic application reloading could be implemented,
> > something that is available now with generate.py watch + source-
> > server-reload jobs.
> >
> > Dimitri
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > There is a first release of my QxCompiler that adds ES6 to
> > > Qooxdoo applications and replaces the generate.py toolchain with
> > > a faster, 100% Javascript tool that is easily extensible.
> > >
> > > You can find the first release at GitHub here: https://github.com
> > > /johnspackman/qxcompiler
> > >
> > > It’s an alpha release, but something that’s been in development
> > > for a while now and which I’m starting to build into my
> > > production servers.
> > >
> > > I’m very open to pull requests or collaboration, and keen to see
> > > this become a useful tool for myself as well as others so any
> > > questions etc please ask.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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