Asset middleware

Decrease dev/testing period rebuilding on demand assets (with make commands) which has been updated.

Each time a GET request for an asset ( specified on the monitor options ) is received:

• the make command for the specific asset ( convention naming ) is executed, and after the execution the asset is retrieved.
• On production, make commands are not executed and only retrieves the specific asset.

Set up express server

  app.use( require('node-make-asset-pipeline')({asset: 'assets', monitors: [ { name: 'ember', watch: 'packages/ember.js/packages' } ]}) );

Create makefile

In order to work, each command must output a file with the same name as the command

Makefile

ember:

cd ./packages/ember.js; \
  rake clean; \
  rake 

cp -pr ./packages/ember.js/dist/ember.js assets/ember.js

asset_folder

ember.js

Install

npm node-make-asset-pipeline