koa-asset

An asset pipeline for Koa, powered by Mincer.

A wholly untested, but nearly drop-in replacement for koa-mincer. Powered by TypeScript, written for Koa 2.x. I'll get around to writing tests when I've made more progress on Overland, for which this is a dependency-of-a-dependency (via overland-assets).

Includes a torn-out version of Mincer's internal, Connect-ish asset server, extended to use Koa instead. Obviates the need for a number of abandoned, insecure or otherwise deprecated packages in koa-mincer's dependency tree. Makes extensive (re)use of code from the following packages, all released under the terms of the MIT License.

• koa-mincer
• mincer
• connect-mincer

Performance

In my (limited) testing, the switch has shaved ~100ms (112ms → 12ms) off Overland's boot time and about somewhere around 5ms off most file serves. For big files (which you should be serving with Nginx instead of Node, e.g. 3.2MB image, 40ms -> 35ms), that's not going to mean much, but for smaller ones (i.e., 335kb image, 8ms -> 3ms), it could help. Haven't seen a huge difference in serve times for text files (i.e., scripts and styles), so I'm not going to claim that it'll give you magical performance boosts across the board. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Usage

Detailed usage instructions can be found at koa-mincer's project page.

import * as Koa from 'koa';
import assets from 'koa-asset';
import render from 'koa-nunjucks2';
import { resolve } from 'path';
 
const app = new Koa();
 
app.use(render({
  path: resolve(__dirname, '../views'),
  nunjucksConfig: { autoescape: true }
}));
 
app.use(assets({
  production: app.env === 'production',
  mountPoint: '/assets',
  manifest: resolve(__dirname, '../public/assets/manifest.json'),
  paths: [ 'assets/css', 'assets/js', 'assets/templates' ]
}));
 
app.use(async function foo(ctx) {
  const { asset, css, img, js } = ctx.state;
  ctx.body = await ctx.render('home', { asset, css, img, js });
});
 
app.listen(3000);

And then in your template...

<!-- asset() kicks back a path... -->
<audio src="{{ asset('audio/foo.m4a') }}" controls>
  <p>Get yourself a browser with HTML5 support!</p>
</audio>
 
<!-- ...and the rest kick back tags -->
{{ js('scripts/foo.js') | safe }}
{{ css('styles/foo.css') | safe }}
{{ image('images/foo.jpg', { alt: 'ONE WHOLE FOO' }) | safe }}

And huzzah!

<audio src="/assets/audio/foo.m4a?body=1" controls>
  <p>Get yourself a browser with HTML5 support!</p>
</audio>
 
<script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/scripts/foo.js?body=1"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/styles/foo.css?body=1"></script>
<img alt="ONE WHOLE FOO" src="/assets/images/foo.jpg?body=1" />

Roadmap

• write tests you vegan
• document manifest interface

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