# NAME Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert css, less, sass, javascript and coffeescript files # VERSION 2.07 # SYNOPSIS ## Application use Mojolicious::Lite; # Load plugin and pipes in the right order plugin AssetPack => { pipes => [qw(Less Sass Css CoffeeScript Riotjs JavaScript Combine)] }; # define asset app->asset->process( # virtual name of the asset "app.css" => ( # source files used to create the asset "sass/bar.scss", "https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize/blob/master/sass/materialize.scss", ) ); ## Template %= asset "app.css" <%= content %> # DESCRIPTION [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack) is [Mojolicious plugin](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin) for processing static assets. The idea is that JavaScript and CSS files should be served as one minified file to save bandwidth and roundtrip time to the server. Note that the main author have moved on to using [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack) instead, which uses [https://webpack.js.org/](https://webpack.js.org/) under the hood, but is just as convenient to use as this plugin. It is very easy to try out [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack), since it will detect your AssetPack based project automatically, and migrate them over to webpack once the plugin is loaded. There are many external tools for doing this, but integrating them with [Mojolicious](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious) can be a struggle: You want to serve the source files directly while developing, but a minified version in production. This assetpack plugin will handle all of that automatically for you. Your application creates and refers to an asset by its topic (virtual asset name). The process of building actual assets from their components is delegated to "pipe objects". Please see ["Pipes" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial#Pipes) for a complete list. # BREAKING CHANGES ## assetpack.db (v1.47) `assetpack.db` no longer track files downloaded from the internet. It will mostly "just work", but in some cases version 1.47 might download assets that have already been downloaded with AssetPack version 1.46 and earlier. The goal is to remove `assetpack.db` completely. # GUIDES - [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial) The tutorial will give an introduction to how AssetPack can be used. - [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Developing](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Developing) The "developing" guide will give insight on how to do effective development with AssetPack and more details about the internals in this plugin. - [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Cookbook](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Cookbook) The cookbook has various receipes on how to cook with AssetPack. # HELPERS ## asset $self = $app->asset; $self = $c->asset; $bytestream = $c->asset($topic, @args); $bytestream = $c->asset("app.css", media => "print"); `asset()` is the main entry point to this plugin. It can either be used to access the [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack) instance or as a tag helper. The helper name "asset" can be customized by specifying "helper" when [registering](#register) the plugin. See [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial) for more details. # ATTRIBUTES ## minify $bool = $self->minify; $self = $self->minify($bool); Set this to true to combine and minify the assets. Defaults to false if ["mode" in Mojolicious](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious#mode) is "development" and true otherwise. See ["Application mode" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial#Application-mode) for more details. ## route $route = $self->route; $self = $self->route($route); A [Mojolicious::Routes::Route](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Routes::Route) object used to serve assets. The default route responds to HEAD and GET requests and calls [serve\_asset()](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store#serve_asset) on ["store"](#store) to serve the asset. The default route will be built and added to the [application](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious) when ["process"](#process) is called the first time. See ["ASSETS FROM CUSTOM DOMAIN" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Cookbook](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Cookbook#ASSETS-FROM-CUSTOM-DOMAIN) for an example on how to customize this route. ## store $obj = $self->store; $self = $self->store(Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store->new); Holds a [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store) object used to locate, store and serve assets. ## tag\_for Deprecated. Use ["renderer" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset#renderer) instead. ## ua $ua = $self->ua; Holds a [Mojo::UserAgent](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::UserAgent) which can be used to fetch assets either from local application or from remote web servers. # METHODS ## pipe $obj = $self->pipe($name); $obj = $self->pipe("Css"); Will return a registered pipe by `$name` or `undef` if none could be found. ## process $self = $self->process($topic => @assets); $self = $self->process($definition_file); Used to process assets. A `$definition_file` can be used to define `$topic` and `@assets` in a separate file. See ["Process assets" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial#Process-assets) for more details. `$definition_file` defaults to "assetpack.def". ## processed $collection = $self->processed($topic); Can be used to retrieve a [Mojo::Collection](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::Collection) object, with zero or more [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset) objects. Returns undef if `$topic` is not defined with ["process"](#process). ## register $self->register($app, \%config); Used to register the plugin in the application. `%config` can contain: - helper Name of the helper to add to the application. Default is "asset". - pipes This argument is mandatory and need to contain a complete list of pipes that is needed. Example: $app->plugin(AssetPack => {pipes => [qw(Sass Css Combine)]); See ["Pipes" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial#Pipes) for a complete list of available pipes. - proxy A hash of proxy settings. Set this to `0` to disable proxy detection. Currently only "no\_proxy" is supported, which will set which requests that should bypass the proxy (if any proxy is detected). Default is to bypass all requests to localhost. See ["detect" in Mojo::UserAgent::Proxy](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::UserAgent::Proxy#detect) for more information. # SEE ALSO [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Webpack). ["GUIDES"](#guides), [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset), [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Pipe](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Pipe) and [Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store](https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store). # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2014, Jan Henning Thorsen This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0. # AUTHOR Jan Henning Thorsen - `jhthorsen@cpan.org` Alexander Rymasheusky Mark Grimes - `mgrimes@cpan.org` Per Edin - `info@peredin.com` Viktor Turskyi