I've had similar thoughts, recently. Specifically for the case of LESS, I was thinking that adding a "plugin" to Sling, which takes care of storing and compiling and caching results of LESS resources in the repository would be very useful. Of course, this wouldn't have to be maintained by Sling as a core module. But maybe, Sling could host popular third-party contributions.
2013/3/26 Bob Paulin <[email protected]>: > > > CQ provides several features for consolidating and minifying CSS and > JavaScript. However a number of technologies such as CoffeeScript, > Handlebars, and LESS have emerged help developers in various ways with front > end development. Sling supports numerous server side scripting languages > for working with JCR but I'm curious if Sling might ever be intended to > support front end scripting languages. Projects such as wro4j > (http://alexo.github.com/wro4j) support these things but don't have the > convenience of the JCR to store compiled resources. > > I started playing around with CoffeeScript and it seems like these things > could be useful to bake in. If not in Sling in CQ. Thoughts? > > https://github.com/bobpaulin/sling-coffee > > - Bob Paulin > http://bobpaulin.com > @bobpaulin > >
