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Im looking for the simplest possible module to hot-reload a static folder with all its contents.
With hot-reload i mean that the browser reloads the page.
i tried simple auto reload server
i could not get it running and the config seems a bit over engineered for my use-case.
my best guess would be to write it myself in node, i cant be the first person who runs into that problem.
i dont want to use any taskrunner like webpack, grunt or gulp.
just to keep it as simple as possible.
You just need BrowserSync.
1- First install it npm install -g browser-sync
2- Run in console browser-sync start --server --files "css/*.css" . You can add any other files you need to reload like: --files "css/*.css,js/*.js,pages/*.html"
3- Open the url provided by it, and it will reload the changes in any .css file in the css folder.
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I want to extend the npm run build command in my package.json not by replacing it, because it uses react-scripts build but by &&'ing another script.
Fastest way to achieve this would be a bash script which just does that. I want to copy a few other files from src into build in order to make a chrome extension out of it.
Is it considered bad practice to use a shell script here rather than writing it natively in a node environment?
Not exactly a bad practice and it is often done in practice but keep in mind that it will be less portable because it will not work on systems where the shell that you use for scripting (e.g. Bash or whatever is in the shebang line) is not available.
I recently wrote an answer to the question on how to solve a problem with installing Node modules that require Bash on Windows:
'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command
So it is a problem that happens in practice.
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I'm a little lost as to how I should proceed, actually I don't even know where to start.
I've been working on a few wordpress sites lately, usually I create a dev environment using npm grunt.
I set up a folder and do npm init. Then I install all the grunt plugins I need such as: watch, sass, uglify etc... I then download wordpress and set up the gruntfile.js so that for example my sass will compile to my wordpress theme's stylesheet. Just the usual (I hope).
The thing is rather than always repeating the same step over and over I'd like to automate it ( same config step for each site ).
So here is my question, how do you go about creating a script that will automaticaly install grunt plugins and configure them, download the latest wordpress and set up the theme files ( domain name etc...)?
I don't need an explanation on how to do all these steps but just a few pointers on where to start and what tools to use would be great. Being quite the novice in script writing any information is good to use.
Try yeoman.
There is yeoman generator for wordperss boilerplate. It uses gulp instead grunt, but has same idea that you need.
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I have many CSS & JS files. Ideally, I just want to use some command line tool to select all those css & js files, and minify them into one file each. Any simple tools for this?
The npm respository offers many command line tools for this, for example:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglify-js
https://www.npmjs.com/package/uglifycss
Just install them with "npm install -g [package-name]", after installing Node.js - which comes with npm.
You're looking for yuicompressor? It minifies and combines multiple CSS files (or JS files) and concatenates them to one single file.
Example:
yuicompressor *.js > javascript.min.js
You can use gulp to do this.
Take a look at this tutorial for some simple examples, including css and js minification :
http://julienrenaux.fr/2014/05/25/introduction-to-gulp-js-with-practical-examples/
Of note is the js example, which demonstrates minifiying an entire directory - you can do the same with css as well.
You will have to create one small config file unless you use the gulp-shell node package. I probably wouldn't bother with that when first learning gulp.
There are a few "set up gulp" tutorials, including this one: http://travismaynard.com/writing/getting-started-with-gulp.
A build tool like gulp or grunt are made to do this, plus you can do a lot more once you're familiar with one of them.
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I have 18 CSS files and 20 JS files. After running in Chrome's Console Aufits-->Remove unused CSS rules. I can see some files have 93% of unused code. Something similar happens to the JS files. My website is only one html file and has no nested html files.
The ideal solution to my needs would be a software that scans my website and generates a single CSS file and a single JS file and only with the used code. If this tool does not exist, i can continue living with all the files but i need a tool to delete de unused code and leave just the used one.
Is there such a software?
yes, you can! use uncss that's a pretty nice tool, you'll need to install node.js, grunt, bower, git and install it by using npm.
then you just need to do a npm install -g uncss
that apply with any technology you can just use the dev node.js environment which is awesome!
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I'm after a linux server-side script I can run which can complete several tasks.
We currently have an in-house PHP framework - which runs on Apache with MySQL - the only server-side 'technology' we use is composer.
I am after a task runner - similar to grunt & gulp which does not run on Node and can work with an existing site set up - something that can be plugged in after the site is set up.
The thing that puts me off gulp and grunt is it suits your application if it is built on Node or you are using other node apps - otherwise you need a package.js along with a Gruntfile.
Tasks I would like it to run as a minimum is compiling Scss and minifying JS. Other tasks would be JS concatenation and image compression.
I've looked at Grunt, Gulp, Guard and Brunch.
Any suggestions?
uglifyjs will minify javascript, and other tools like compass can compile scss.
You can use make as a task runner to manage all that.
The default choice of Make, because of extremely widespread usage and software freedom, is to use GNU Make, which has a comprehensive manual.
One of the very important and useful operation that you can do using Grunt is running shell command, now it can be sequentially or in parallel.
Have a look at the grunt-shell, using this you can run any sort of complex shell command.
You can run also bower to install all your dependencies directly into your assets so that you don't have to download them one by one.
There are whole lot of plugins available you can just look at them here