Dimitri,
Independently, of course...
Stefan
> Adrian,
>
> Sounds pretty cool! Unfortunately there's one missing link here -
> QxCompiler is not a Grunt task yet.
>
> BTW, is Grunt capable of running two or more background tasks
> simultaneously? eg. QxCompiler job + web server
> Or do we need to launch them in separate Grunt instances?
>
> Dimitri
>
>
> В Пн, 22/02/2016 в 18:38 +0100, Adrian Haarbach пишет:
>> Concerning the webserver, I am using Grunt and the 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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