Minification and concatenation of CSS and Javascript (with Plack?)

[Pierre M]

Ok, now I'm concatenating all my .js files for production, and that's all
organized in my development.yml and production.yml files (I'm using
Dancer2). The Gist is here <https://gist.github.com/mascip/7656792> if
anyone is interested.

I'll play with the headers and middlewares another day.


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On 25 November 2013 17:28, Pierre M <piemas25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheers for these details Mark :-) I might end up doing something similar.
> I haven't had time to play with this today. It will come back on top of my
> priority list soon.
>
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>
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>
> On 25 November 2013 16:54, Mark Stringer <mark at repixl.com> wrote:
>
>> Plack::App::MCCS doesn't concatenate the files unfortunately. We do that
>> during our build process, by combining the minified files it has produced,
>> and use config to determine whether to call the concatenated files
>> (production) or not (development - in order to aid debugging).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/24/2013 12:49 AM, Pierre M wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, now I've tried
>>> Plack::Middleware::Assets<https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack::
>>> Middleware::Assets>with
>>>
>>> the right list of files but nothing seems to happen:
>>>   - the chrome dev tools don't indicate that the files have been
>>> minified or
>>> concatenated (which might be normal as it's happening server-side?)
>>>   - the page loading time doesn't improve; while when i concatenated the
>>> files manually, the loading time decreased significantly.
>>>
>>> I've also tried Plack::App::MCCS
>>> <https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack::App::MCCS>by doing
>>>
>>>      my $app = builder {
>>>          # Loading some Plack::Middlewares...
>>>          MyApp->dance;
>>>      }
>>>      builder {
>>>          mount '/public' => Plack::App::MCCS->new(root => '/public');
>>>          mount '/' => $app;
>>>      }
>>> which gives a similar result.
>>>
>>> I probably did something wrong (but not wrong enough that the app doesn't
>>> run). I might end up putting some print statements inside these modules,
>>> to
>>> see what's going on. Sleepy time now. I'll investigate further on Monday.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On 23 November 2013 23:47, Pierre M <piemas25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  does the exemple in the docs, or t/basic.t in the distribution not point
>>>>>
>>>> you in the right direction?  Is there something missing from the docs
>>>> that
>>>> is causing you pain?
>>>> Haha! I'm remembering now what I thought last week: my files are not all
>>>> in the same folder, so I have to list them all first. I had tried
>>>> <**/*.css> and the wildcard didn't work; I left that in the code last
>>>> week,
>>>> and this week assumed it did work. Sorry for a question whose answer I
>>>> had.
>>>>
>>>> Plack::App::MCCS <https://metacpan.org/pod/Plack::App::MCCS> seems
>>>> good.
>>>>
>>>> How to you use it with a Dancer2 app? (what is $app in the case of a
>>>> Dancer2 app?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>