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Packaging Rich Javascript Apps with Ruby and rake-pipeline

Packaging Rich Javascript Apps with Ruby and rake-pipeline

An introduction to rake-pipeline

Luke Melia

June 23, 2012
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  1. Organizing and
    Packaging Rich
    Javascript Apps
    with Ruby and
    rake-pipeline
    Luke Melia
    Gotham Ruby Conference
    June 23rd, 2012
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  2. About this Gorucoan
    2
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  3. Javascript
    Apps Are
    Getting
    Bigger
    3
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  4. Our Old
    Practices
    Are Not
    Good
    Enough
    4
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  5. Build System
    5
    OO Design Principles
    Build System
    et cetera...
    Testing
    Logical File Organization
    Build System
    -style
    app/
    controllers/
    models/
    et cetera...
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  6. Why a Build
    System?
    ★ Development
    convenience
    ★ Deployment
    optimizations
    6
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  7. What Do Javascript Build Systems
    Do in the Real World?
    ■ Concatenation
    ■ Minification
    ■ Authoring in another
    language
    ■ Stripping asserts
    ■ Deferring parsing
    ■ Template compilation
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  8. Common Tools
    in Javascript Build Systems
    ■ YUI Compressor
    ■ Closure Compiler
    ■ uglify-js
    ■ JSmin
    ■ Coffeescript
    ■ Handlebars
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  9. The Metaphor:
    Pipes & Filters, a.k.a. Pipeline 9
    Input
    Output
    Filter Filter Filter
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  10. The Metaphor:
    Pipes & Filters, a.k.a. Pipeline 10
    Input
    Output
    Filter Filter Filter
    A bunch of
    JS files
    Wrap each file
    in a closure Minify each file
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    dist/application.js
    For example:
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  11. Rails-focused Solutions
    ■ Asset Pipeline (Sprockets)
    ■ Jammit
    ■ smart_asset
    ■ lots more...
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  12. Outside the Ruby Community
    ■ Ant
    ■ Make
    ■ Jake (multiple projects named this!)
    ■ Grunt
    ■ Brunch
    ■ lots more...
    12
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  13. With all these
    options, why
    rake-pipeline?
    Because it is an
    example of what I
    love about Ruby.
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  14. History of rake-pipeline
    ■October, 2011
    ■LivingSocial needs a
    solution to build an
    Ember.js project
    ■Yehuda Katz creates
    rake-pipeline
    ■Open-sourced soon
    after 14
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  15. “The idea behind
    rake-pipeline is to
    create an asset
    pipeline based on
    the principles of a
    build process...” 15
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  16. “By modeling the
    problem as a build
    process, it’s easier to
    add new features and
    compose steps than
    by hardcoding different
    types of processors
    and hoping they all fit
    together.”
    Yehuda Katz 16
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  17. Rake
    17
    ■“Ruby Make”
    ■Part of the
    standard library
    ■by Jim Weirich
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  18. 18
    FIleTask is a Rake
    task designed to
    create a file.
    If a target file is
    newer than all its
    dependencies, the
    task action is not
    run.
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  19. FileTask example 19
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  20. Translates Filters to FileTasks 20
    Input
    Output
    Filter Filter Filter
    FileT
    ask FileT
    ask FileT
    ask
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  21. 21
    Anatomy of
    a Rake-Pipeline Filter
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  22. Easy to
    write, easy
    to share.
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  23. wycats/rake-pipeline-web-filters
    ■ CacheBuster
    ■ CoffeeScript
    ■ Handlebars
    ■ Less
    ■ Markdown
    ■ Minispade
    ■ Sass
    ■ Tilt
    ■ Uglify
    ■ YuiCss
    ■ YuiJavascript
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  24. Roman2K / rake-pipeline-requirejs
    ■ Context
    ■ Define
    24
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  25. 25
    Pipeline DSL
    Input
    Output
    Filter Filter Filter
    A bunch of
    JS files
    Wrap each file
    in a closure
    Minify each file
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    dist/application.js
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  26. 26
    Pipeline DSL
    Input
    Output
    Filter Filter Filter
    A bunch of
    JS files
    Wrap each file
    in a closure
    Minify each file
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    dist/application.js
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  27. 27
    Pipeline DSL
    Output
    Filter
    Filter Filter
    Wrap each file
    in a closure
    Minify each file
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    dist/application.js
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  29. 29
    Pipeline DSL
    Filter
    Filter
    Wrap each file
    in a closure
    Minify each file
    Filter
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    Output
    dist/application.js
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    Pipeline DSL
    Filter
    Minify each file
    Filter
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    Output
    dist/application.js
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  32. 32
    Pipeline DSL
    Filter
    Filter
    Minify each file
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    Output
    dist/application.js
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    Pipeline DSL
    Filter
    Concatenate into
    a single file
    Output
    dist/application.js
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  34. 34
    Pipeline DSL
    Output
    dist/application.js
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  35. 35
    Pipeline DSL
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  36. 36
    Assetfile
    Define a file named “Assetfile” in the root of your project
    Unabbreviated version at https://gist.github.com/2958072
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  37. 37
    Helpers
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  38. 38
    Pipeline DSL with Helpers
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  39. 39
    Matchers
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    Running rakep
    > rakep
    > rakep build
    > rakep clean
    > rakep server
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  41. Integrating in Development
    Rake::Pipeline::Middleware
    ■ configure with an
    Assetfile
    Rake::Pipeline::Railtie
    ■ inserts Middleware in the
    right spot for Rails
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  42. Thanks!
    “Programmers often feel joy when
    they can concentrate on the creative
    side of programming, so Ruby is
    designed to make programmers
    happy.” -Matz
    Follow me @lukemelia
    Some examples appear courtesy of my company, Yapp (which
    happens to be hiring, by the way).
    Creative Commons photo credits: flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/3872588071, flickr.com/photos/banjaxx/7121971091, flickr.com/photos/guy_on_the_streets/
    3034517059, flickr.com/photos/fbmore/1148889628, flickr.com/photos/serenitbee/7118733565, flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/524185543, flickr.com/photos/
    nasa_jsc_photo/6993385964, flickr.com/photos/lukeredmond/2101713113, flickr.com/photos/numbphoto/7052838173, flickr.com/photos/thomasleuthard/
    5805008144, flickr.com/photos/tomvu/5081689621, flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/7401066082
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