lazy-assets

An opinionated and simple build-system approach.

Features:

• JavaScript minification and optimization
• CSS minification and optimization
• Bower integration
• Zero configuration

Requirements

npm install -g lazy-assets

Development server

On development mode, asset definitions are evaluated and dynamically converted to a valid HTML tag. They are compiled on-demand. No "watch" required.

lazy-assets examples/simple

Production

When compiling for production, all your javascripts and stylesheets are compressed into a single file.

lazy-assets {input_dir} {output_dir}

How to use

Wrap all your assets with <assets> tag, and define each dependency with <asset> tag.

To start the development server, run the following: (by default it binds on localhost:3000.)

lazy-assets examples/simple

Then define your dependencies:

<assets>
  <asset href="jquery" source="bower" />
  <asset href="bootstrap" source="bower" />
  <asset href="ractive" source="bower" />
  <asset href="parsleyjs" source="bower" main="dist/parsley.min.js" />
  <asset href="datejs" source="bower" main="build/date.js,build/date-pt-BR.js" />
  <asset href="app.js" compile="browserify" />
  <asset href="test.less" />
  <asset href="test.coffee" />
  <asset href="js/*.js" />
</assets>

When http://localhost:8000 is requested, the output of the HTML file will be the following:

<link href="dependencies/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css?533a476e18588" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" />
<link href="test.less?533a476e18810" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/jquery/dist/jquery.js?533a476e184a3"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js?533a476e1859a"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/ractive/build/Ractive.js?533a476e186be"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/parsleyjs/dist/parsley.min.js?533a476e18748"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/datejs/build/date.js?533a476e187ba"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="dependencies/datejs/build/date-pt-BR.js?533a476e187d6"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="app.js?compile=browserify&533a476e187fa"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="test.coffee?533a476e18822"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/*.js?533a476e1883e"></script>

Now let's compile it for production:

lazy-assets examples/simple examples/simple-output

Result:

<script type="text/javascript" src="javascripts-533afd8c542fd.js"></script>
<link href="stylesheets-533afd8c.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" />

License

MIT