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Taking Rails beyond the asset pipeline (Workshop at RubyDay Italia)
Alex Coles
December 06, 2016
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Transcript
Taking Rails beyond the asset pipeline a workshop RubyDay Italia,
Firenze | Novembre 2016
Benvenuto
prima di iniziare
Pre-requisites recent Ruby (2.2+) recent Node (6.9.1+) an existing Rails
app (4.2/5.0) – or example app
Node on macOS brew update brew install yarn
Node on Windows & Linux https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
Frontend has changed
asana
typecast
blocs
So how can Rails keep up?
psst… ditch the asset pipeline
buon pomeriggio RubyDay Italia!
About me @myabc github.com/myabc alexbcoles.com
where I work
what I work on
31 August 2011 Ciao Rails 3.1!
gem wrappers
$ gem list --remote jquery | wc -l 349
Bower
1. gem Using an integration like or gem bower-rails bower
gem install bower-rails source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'bower-rails'
2. Load path config.assets.paths << File.join(Rails.root, 'bower_components')
3. rails-assets.org source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'rails' source 'https://rails-assets.org' do gem
'rails-assets-bootstrap' gem 'rails-assets-angular' gem 'rails-assets-leaflet' end
Bower only solves dependency management
Things you might need Dependency management Pre and post-processing Code
loading Code bundling Tree shaking
Sprockets plugins alexspeller/non-stupid-digest-assets
Sprockets plugins Post-processing JS/CSS uses PostCSS project autopre xer uses
(formerly 6to5), requires Sprockets 3 ai/autopre xer-rails TannerRogalsky/sprockets-es6 Babel
Problem with Sprockets No standard plugin con guration style Cannot
control pre/post-processing order Asset dependencies
Things you might need Dependency management Pre and post-processing Code
loading Code bundling
Webpack
Webpack configuration + entry point // webpack.config.js module.exports = {
context: __dirname + '/app', entry: 'rubydayit-app.js', output: { filename: '[name].js', path: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'app', 'assets', 'javascripts', 'bundles'), publicPath: '/assets/bundles' } }
Requiring JS single files and dependencies require('./another-file'); //= require ./another-file
(Sprockets) var angular = require('angular'); var jQuery = require('jquery'); require('jquery-ui');
Requiring JS a tree var requireTemplate = require.context('./app/controllers', true, /\.js$/);
requireTemplate.keys().forEach(requireTemplate); //= require_tree ./app/controllers (Sprockets)
Requiring assets require('jquery-ui/ui/jquery-ui'); // .js (default) require('jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.core.css'); require('jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.datepicker.css'); require('select2/select2'); //
.js (default) require('select2/select2.css');
Requiring assets quick start require('jquery-ui/ui/jquery-ui'); // .js (default) require('!style-loader!css-loader!jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.core.css'); require('!style-loader!css-loader!jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.datepicker.css');
Requiring assets with a bit of config // webpack.config.js module.exports
= { context: __dirname + '/app', entry: 'rubydayit-app.js', module: { loaders: [ { test: /\.css$/, loader: 'style-loader!css-loader' }, { test: /\.png$/, loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000&mimetype=image/png' }, { test: /\.gif$/, loader: 'file-loader' }, { test: /\.jpg$/, loader: 'file-loader' } ]} } require('jquery-ui/ui/jquery-ui'); // .js (default) require('jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.core.css'); require('jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery.ui.datepicker.css');
Requiring assets body { background: url(/assets/bundles/background-texture.jpg) } /* border-image: url(border-image.png);
*/ .box { border-image: url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAFoAAA…'); }
Loaders and plugins Webpack is built on the concept of
loaders and plugins
Loaders
Loaders Loaders are transformations that are applied on les. They
preprocess les. I. e. they can transform Co eeScript to JavaScript.
Chaining Loaders eslint ← co ee json ← yaml style
← postcss ← css ← sass ngtemplate-loader ← markdown
Requiring Rails- style translation files $ yarn add --dev json-loader
yaml-loader I18n.translations = I18n.translations || {}; I18n.translations.en = require('!json!yaml!config/locales/en_US.yml').en; I18n.translations.de = require('!json!yaml!config/locales/en_DE.yml').de;
Transpiling (ES6 → ES5) $ yarn add --dev babel-loader module:
{ loaders: [ { test: /\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/, loader: 'babel-loader'} ] }
Transpiling (ES6 → ES5) // app-defaults.js export default { favouriteConf:
'RubyDay Italia' }; // app.js import appDefaults from './app-defaults.js'; class ExampleApp { constructor() { console.log(appDefaults.favouriteConf); } } export default ExampleApp;
Legacy code support $ yarn add --dev exports-loader module: {
loaders: [ { test: /[\/]angular\.js$/, loader: 'exports?angular' } ] }
One more thing…
http://xkcd.com/303/
Hot reloading
Hot reloading colektivo/song-song-song gaearon/react-hot-loader
Instructions Building a vanilla Rails 5 application
Generate a new Rails app rails new TimeTracker git init
and git commit after each step.
Generate Rails scaffolding
Project ./bin/rails generate scaffold Project name:string:required colour:string TimeEntry ./bin/rails generate
scaffold TimeEntry project:references begin_at:datetime end_at:datetime note ./bin/rake db:migrate
Add materialize-sass and spruce up the application
Example application https://github.com/myabc/webpack-rails-rubydayit
Transforming the application with Webpack 2.0
Webpack 2 yarn add --dev
[email protected]
In webpack.config.js const webpack
= require('webpack'); const path = require('path'); module.exports = { entry: './app/assets/javascripts/application.js', output: { filename: 'application.js', path: path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'javascripts') } }
Babel yarn add --dev babel-loader babel-core yarn add --dev babel-preset-es2015
module.exports = { // ... module: { loaders: [ { test: /\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/, loader: 'babel-loader', query: { presets: ['es2015'] } } ] } }
Sass/CSS Support yarn add --dev sass-loader css-loader node-sass yarn add
--dev
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const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin'); module.exports = { // ... module: { loaders: [ // ... { test: /\.scss$/, loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract({loader: "css-loader!sass-loader"}) } ] }, plugins: [ new ExtractTextPlugin("../stylesheets/application.css") ] }
jQuery yarn add --dev jquery yarn add --dev expose-loader module.exports
= { // ... module: { loaders: [ { test: require.resolve("jquery"), loader: "expose-loader?$!expose-loader?jQuery" } ] } }
Materialize Framework yarn add --dev materialize-css
Rails libraries (asset pipeline analogues) yarn add --dev jquery-ujs yarn
add --dev turbolinks
Adapt application.js //= require jquery import jQuery from 'jquery'; //=
require jquery_ujs import 'jquery-ujs'; //= require turbolinks import Turbolinks from 'turbolinks'; Turbolinks.start(); //= require materialize-sprockets import 'materialize-css'; import './../stylesheets/application.scss';
Adapt application.css -@import "materialize/components/color"; +@import "~materialize-css/sass/components/color"; $primary-color: #5d4ca0 !default; $secondary-color:
#38d59c !default; -@import "materialize" +$roboto-font-path: "~materialize-css/fonts/roboto/"; +@import "~materialize-css/sass/materialize"; module.exports = { // ... module: { loaders: [ { test: /\.eot(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "file-loader" }, { test: /\.(woff|woff2)$/, loader: "url-loader?prefix=font/&limit=5000" { test: /\.ttf(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url-loader?limit=10000&mimetype=application/ { test: /\.svg(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/, loader: "url-loader?limit=10000&mimetype=image/svg+xm ] } }
Run yarn run webpack
Integrate with Rails rake webpack – or – rake assets:precompile
Foreman gem install foreman foreman start # Procfile rails: bundle
exec rails server -e ${RAILS_ENV:="development"} -p 3000 webpack: yarn webpack -- --watch --progress
Disabling the Rails asset pipeline
in a new app rails new app --skip-sprockets rails new
app --skip-javascript --skip-turbolinks --skip-action-cable
in an existing app # config/application.rb -require 'rails/all' +require 'rails'
+require 'active_model/railtie' +require 'active_job/railtie' +require 'active_record/railtie' +require 'action_controller/railtie' +require 'action_mailer/railtie' +require 'action_view/railtie' +require 'action_cable/engine' +require 'rails/test_unit/railtie' - config.assets.debug = true - config.assets.quiet = true rm config/initializers/assets.rb
Rails integration /// manifest-84b43dda218a2c29ce11f4f7b9ca4e5f.json { "assets": { "1downarrow.png": "1downarrow-d2055955ce2927de07f2e33abdbfdc1b.png", "1uparrow.png":
"1uparrow-a4eef1942dd999e6a16e84c1c8122b8a.png", "2downarrow.png": "2downarrow-e8bc5b59fa922f68637dc22b4a467f5c.png" } }
Rails integration # app/helpers/application_helper.rb def webpack_bundle_tag(bundle) src = if Rails.configuration.webpack[:use_manifest]
manifest = Rails.configuration.webpack[:asset_manifest] filename = manifest[bundle] "#{compute_asset_host}/assets/#{filename}" else "#{compute_asset_host}/assets/#{bundle}-bundle" end javascript_include_tag(src) end http://clarkdave.net/2015/01/how-to-use-webpack-with-rails/
Conclusion
Grazie!
Domande?