@oat-sa/grunt-tao-bundle

grunt-tao-bundle

Grunt task to bundle assets from a TAO Extension.

Concept

The TAO software architecture is based on atomic components called extensions. Each extension provides it's own source code (client and server side code). TAO extensions can be dependent on other extensions.

In order to create bundles that doesn't impact the extension dependency model, we bundle the code for a given extension only, no matter if an asset is dependent of an asset in another extension.

This task produce bundles sandboxed to a given extension.

The task is made of 2 steps :

1. The bundling, based on the configuration, we aggregate the assets of the extension, into a single file. Since the TAO client source code is managed using AMD modules and use some requirejs internals, we use the r.js optimizer to parse the dependency tree and bundle the assets. We don't use it to minimify the resources.
2. The transform step is used to either transpile the code, using Babel 7 (still experimental) or UglifyJs to compress and minimify it.

Getting Started

This plugin requires node.js >= 8.6.0 and to be installed along with Grunt. To add install it :

npm install @oat-sa/grunt-tao-bundle --save-dev

The "tao-bundle" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named bundle to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig() or grunt.config.merge().

grunt.initConfig({
  bundle: {
    options: {
        amd : require('config/amd.json')
    },
    taoce : {
        options : {
            extension : 'taoCe',
            extensionPath : root + '/taoCe/views/js',
            outputDir : 'loader',
            bundles : [{
                name : 'taoCe',
                default : true,
                babel: true
            }]
        }
    }
  },
})

Options

Option	Type	Description	Scope	Example value
amd	Object	The AMD/requirejs configuration	All extensions, all bundles
amd.baseUrl	String	Relative path to resolve the AMD modules	All extensions, all bundles	../js
amd.paths	Object	The list of AMD paths/alias	All extensions, all bundles
amd.shim	Object	the AMD shim configuration	All extensions, all bundle
amd.vendor	String[]	A list of vendor modules	All extensions, all bundle	['lodash', 'core/**/*']
amd.exclude	String[]	A list of modules to always exclude	All extensions, all bundle	['mathJax', 'ckeditor']
amd.bootstrap	String[]	A list of module to include to bootstrap a bundle	All extensions, all bundle	['loader/bootrstrap']
amd.default	String[]	A list of modules to include for default bundles. It's the default pattern for TAO extension source code.	All extensions, all bundle	['controller/**/*', 'component/**/*', 'provider/**/*']
paths	Object	Additional list of paths/alias	The current extension
workDir	String	The temporary working directory to copy the sources and generates the bundles	The current extension	output
outputDir	String	The directory (inside the workDir) where the bundles will be generated	The current extension	loader
extension	String	The name of the current extension	The current extension	taoQtiTest
rootExtension	String	The name of the root extension (the one with no prefix in AMD and that contains the libs and SDK)	All extensions	tao
dependencies	String[]	The list of extension dependencies, the code from a dependency is excluded from the bundle.	The current extensions	['taoItems', 'taoTests', 'taoQtiItem']
allowExternal	String[]	Allow external dependency into the bundle. It's not a good practice, but this can be used for aliases. Allow them to be included without the bundler to warn you about forbidden dependency.	The current extensions	['qtiInfoControlContext']
getExtensionPath	Function	A function that resolves the path to the JS files from an extension	All extensions	extension => root + '/' + extension + '/views/js'
getExtensionCssPath	Function	A function that resolves the path to the CSS files from an extension	All extensions	extension => root + '/' + extension + '/views/css'
bundles	Object[]	The bundles configuration	The current extensions
bundle.name	String	The bundle name without the file extension	The current bundle	vendor or taoQtiTest
bundle.vendor	Boolean	When true, the bundle will include ONLY the libraries from amd.vendor (Default : false)	The current bundle
bundle.standalone	Boolean	When true, the bundle will include ALL dependencies so that it can be run as a standalone (Default : false)	The current bundle
bundle.bootstrap	Boolean	When true, the bundle will include the modules from amd.bootstrap (Default : false)	The current bundle
bundle.entryPoint	String	Define an entryPoint for the bundle. Useful to create a separate bundle for a given entryPoint	The current bundle	'controller/login'
bundle.default	Boolean	When true, the bundle will include the modules from amd.default (Default : false)	The current bundle
bundle.include	String[]	A list of additional module to add to the bundle, especially when modules are not in the correct folder.	The current bundle	['taoQtiItem/qtiCommonRenderer/**/*']
bundle.exclude	String[]	A list of additional module to exclude from the bundle, but if module has nested dependencies that are part of the built file	The current bundle	['taoQtiItem/qtiItem/test/**/*']
bundle.excludeNested	String[]	A list of module to exclude from the bundle. Excludes all nested dependencies from the built file	The current bundle	['taoQtiItem/qtiItem/test/**/*']
bundle.dependencies	String[]	Override the extension dependency loading : if set, loads the exact list of module	The current bundle	['taoQtiItem/loader/taoQtiItemRunner.min']
bundle.babel	Boolean	Experimental When true, the bundle will use Babel to transpile the code (Default : false)	The current bundle
bundle.targets	Object,String	Experimental A specific target for transpiling the code when using Babel (Default : 'extends @oat-sa/browserslist-config-tao')	The current bundle	{ ie: '11' }
bundle.uglify	Boolean	When true, the bundle will be minimified (Default : true)	The current bundle
bundle.package	Object[]	Extends packages to the bundle (Default : [])	The current bundle	[{ name: 'codemirror', location: '../../../tao/views/node_modules/codemirror', main: 'lib/codemirror'}]

Examples

The configuration from the tao extension :

grunt.config.merge({
    bundle : {
        //define the global options for all extensions' tasks
        options: {
            rootExtension        : 'tao',
            getExtensionPath     : extension => `${root}/${extension}/views/js`,
            getExtensionCssPath  : extension => `${root}/${extension}/views/css`,
            amd                  : require('../config/requirejs.build.json'),
            workDir              : 'output',
            outputDir            : 'loader'
        },

        tao : {
            options : {
                extension : 'tao',
                bundles : [{
                    //bundles sources from amd.vendor
                    name   : 'vendor',
                    vendor : true
                }, {
                    //bundles sources from controller/login with amd.bootstrap
                    name      : 'login',
                    bootstrap : true,
                    default   : false,
                    entryPoint: 'controller/login'
                }, {
                    //bundles sources from amd/default, amd.boostrap and the includes
                    name      : 'tao',
                    bootstrap : true,
                    default   : true,
                    include   : ['layout/**/*', 'form/**/*', 'lock', 'report', 'users']
                }]
            }
        }
    }
});

The configuration from the taoQtiItem extension :

grunt.config.merge({
    bundle : {
        taoqtiitem : {
            options : {
                extension : 'taoQtiItem',
                dependencies : ['taoItems']

                //the source code of this extension relies on custom alias, so we can add them
                paths : {
                    'qtiCustomInteractionContext' : `${root}/taoQtiItem/views/js/runtime/qtiCustomInteractionContext`,
                    'qtiInfoControlContext' : `${root}taoQtiItem/views/js/runtime/qtiInfoControlContext`
                },

                bundles : [{
                    name : 'taoQtiItem',
                    default : true,

                    //we need to list the dependencies manually, since the
                    //sources contains tests in subfoldesr
                    include : [
                        'taoQtiItem/mathRenderer/mathRenderer',
                        'taoQtiItem/portableElementRegistry/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiCommonRenderer/helpers/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiCommonRenderer/renderers/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiCreator/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiItem/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiRunner/**/*',
                        'taoQtiItem/qtiXmlRenderer/**/*',
                        'qtiCustomInteractionContext',
                        'qtiInfoControlContext'
                    ]
                }]
            }
        }
    }
});

Test

npm test

Release History

• 0.8.0 Add options for standalone bundles and specific Babel targets
• 0.7.0 Update browserslist version (remove IE11 support)
• 0.6.1 Enable babel updates
• 0.6.0 Exclude nested modules from bundle
• 0.5.0 Extend optimizer with packages option
• 0.4.1 Fix paths for the embedded source-maps
• 0.4.0 Add Jenkins file
• 0.2.0 Babel implementation
• 0.1.0 Initial release

License

See GPL-2.0