Hi Stefan,
here is the pull request: https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo/pull/175:
Added grunt task source-server-nodejs to the grunt templates.
Now you have the choice between
grunt source-server -> python SimpleHttpServer
grunt source-server-nodejs -> node grunt-http-server
cheers,
Adrian
2016-02-22 18:44 GMT+01:00 <d...@cost-savers.net>:
> Adrian,
>
> This is great. We have thought of using it instead of simple....
> Now you have done the job. Is it possible to make it universal and into
> pull requestable files...?
> We will put it on our todo list to exchange the simple python server...
>
> Stefan
>
> > Concerning the webserver, I am using Grunt and the grunt-http-server
> > <https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-http-server> plugin, which is
> based on
> > node.js and much faster than python's SimpleHttpServer in serving files.
> > Also, it allows to specify a proxy where it redirects all requests it
> > cannot resolve locally (e.g requests to tomcat). Really useful when
> > developing the web part of an application while the backend runs
> somewhere
> > remotely.
> >
> > qooxdoo already comes with a package.json and Gruntfile.js by default
> now,
> > I just edited them as below to make the webserver work:
> >
> >
> > *package.json:*
> >
> > {
> > "name": "project",
> > "version": "0.1.0",
> > "repository": {},
> > "devDependencies": {
> > "grunt": "~0.4.2",
> > "grunt-http-server": "^1.13.0"
> > }
> > "license": "Apache-2.0"
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > *Gruntfile.js:*
> >
> > module.exports = function(grunt) {
> > grunt.initConfig({
> > 'http-server': {
> >
> > 'dev': {
> >
> > // the server root directory
> > root: ".",
> >
> > // the server port, can also be written as a function, e.g.
> > // port: function() { return 8282; }
> > port: 9999,
> >
> > // the host ip address
> > // If specified to, for example, "127.0.0.1" the server
> will
> > only be available on that ip.
> > // Specify "0.0.0.0" to be available everywhere
> > host: "127.0.0.1",
> >
> > // server default file extension
> > ext: "html",
> >
> > // run in parallel with other tasks
> > runInBackground: false,
> >
> > // Proxies all requests which can't be resolved locally to
> > the given url
> > // Note this this will disable 'showDir'
> > proxy: "http://mybackendserver.com";,
> > }
> > }
> > });
> > // // 3. Where we tell Grunt we plan to use this plug-in.
> > grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-http-server');
> > // // 4. Where we tell Grunt what to do when we type "grunt" into the
> > terminal.
> > grunt.registerTask('default', ['http-server:dev']);
> > };
> >
> >
> >
> > *Then to install all dependencies and run, just do:*
> >
> > npm install -g grunt-cli
> > npm install //installs dependencies listed in package.json into
> > node_modules folder
> > grunt //runs default http-server:dev job
> >
> >
> >
> > The recompiler and reloader for dev jobs and additionally concatenator
> and
> > uglifiers/minifiers for dist jobs can also be added as simple grunt
> tasks.
> > There are lots of plugins for these tasks.
> >
> > Looking forward to ditch ./generate.py in favor of a simple and faster
> > grunt job!
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > 2016-02-22 17:58 GMT+01:00 Dimitri <mi...@cargosoft.ru>:
> >
> >> Feature request: background recompiler + web server + reloader
> >>
> >> In qooxdoo development, it's common practice to use a micro HTTP server
> to
> >> run applications, eg. python -m SimpleHTTPServer, generate.py
> >> source-server, editor/IDE embedded etc. This is because of limitations
> of
> >> file:/// addressing scheme and CORS/XHR issues that it has.
> >> QxCompiler is going to introduce another background process for live
> code
> >> transpiling. Why not combining these two, so that the developer doesn't
> >> have to launch two separate processes?
> >> It should be pretty easy to serve static contents from Node. In the
> >> future, automatic application reloading could be implemented, something
> >> that is available now with generate.py watch + source-server-reload
> jobs.
> >>
> >> Dimitri
> >>
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> There is a first release of my QxCompiler that adds ES6 to Qooxdoo
> >> applications and replaces the generate.py toolchain with a faster, 100%
> >> Javascript tool that is easily extensible.
> >>
> >> You can find the first release at GitHub here:
> >> https://github.com/johnspackman/qxcompiler
> >>
> >> It’s an alpha release, but something that’s been in development for a
> >> while now and which I’m starting to build into my production servers.
> >>
> >> I’m very open to pull requests or collaboration, and keen to see this
> >> become a useful tool for myself as well as others so any questions etc
> >> please ask.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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