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notifications-admin/gulpfile.js
Chris Hill-Scott 5ebeec08ae Use a Node-based tools for handling assets
…or how to move a bunch of things from a bunch of different places into
`app/static`.

There are three main reasons not to use Flask Assets:
- It had some strange behaviour like only
- It was based on Ruby SASS, which is slower to get new features than libsass,
  and meant depending on Ruby, and having the SASS Gem globally installed—so
  you’re already out of being a ‘pure’ Python app
- Martyn and I have experience of doing it this way on Marketplace, and we’ve
  ironed out the initial rough patches

The specific technologies this introduces, all of which are Node-based:
- Gulp – like a Makefile written in Javascript
- NPM – package management, used for managing Gulp and its related dependencies
- Bower – also package management, and the only way I can think to have
  GOV.UK template as a proper dependency

…speaking of which, GOV.UK template is now a dependency. This means it can’t be
modified at all (eg to add a global `#content` wrapper), so every page now
inherits from a template that has this wrapper. But it also means that we have a
clean upgrade path when the template is modified.

Everything else (toolkit, elements) I’ve kept as submodules but moved them to a
more logical place (`app/assets` not `app/assets/stylesheets`, because they
contain more than just SASS/CSS).
2016-01-05 13:12:35 +00:00

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// GULPFILE
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
// This file processes all of the assets in the "src" folder
// and outputs the finished files in the "dist" folder.
// 1. LIBRARIES
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
var gulp = require('gulp'),
plugins = require('gulp-load-plugins')(),
// 2. CONFIGURATION
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
paths = {
src: 'app/assets/',
dist: 'app/static/',
templates: 'app/templates/'
};
// 3. TASKS
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
// Move GOV.UK template resources
gulp.task('copy:govuk_template:template', function() {
return gulp.src('bower_components/govuk_template/views/layouts/govuk_template.html')
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.templates));
});
gulp.task('copy:govuk_template:assets', function() {
return gulp.src('bower_components/govuk_template/assets/**/*')
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.dist));
});
// Concatenate and minify
gulp.task('javascripts', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.src + 'javascripts/main.js')
.pipe(plugins.include())
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.dist + 'javascripts/'))
.pipe(plugins.uglify())
.on('error', function(e) { console.log("Uglify did not complete."); })
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.dist + 'javascripts/'));
});
gulp.task('sass', function () {
return gulp.src(paths.src + '/stylesheets/main*.scss')
.pipe(plugins.sass({outputStyle: 'compressed'}))
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.dist + '/stylesheets'));
});
// Copy images
gulp.task('images', function() {
return gulp.src(paths.src + 'images/**/*')
.pipe(gulp.dest(paths.dist + '/images'));
});
// Watch for changes and re-run tasks
gulp.task('watchForChanges', function() {
gulp.watch(paths.src + 'javascripts/**/*', ['javascripts']);
gulp.watch(paths.src + 'stylesheets/**/*', ['sass']);
gulp.watch(paths.src + 'images/**/*', ['images']);
});
// Default: compile everything
gulp.task('default',
['copy:govuk_template:template', 'copy:govuk_template:assets', 'javascripts', 'sass', 'images']
);
// Optional: recompile on changes
gulp.task('watch',
['default', 'watchForChanges']
);