Liftweb sample 2.5.1 with sbt-plugins

• Lift 2.5.1
• sbt-runMode (development, production)
• sbt-js
• sbt-less
• modernizr
• jquery 1.8.3
• conditional runMode snippet
• Twitter Bootstrap included to illustrate the use of sbt shell tasks

Goal

Optimize build process in development and production by:

• conditional compilation js and style files depending on mode configuration.
• concat file or not
• compress file or not
• simplify debugging by separating files in development mode.
• test production output easily
• Add custom sbt task like bash script and link to actions

Installation

Uses sbt-plugins plugins.

Structure

css and less in main/css js, coffeescript, template in main/js

These directories will be filtered and copied to resourceManaged and include in webappResources.

main js and css name : "app"

naming convention

if filename contains (rules in build.sbt)

• .p. == production
• .d. == development
• .a. == add to output directory, will be included in webAppRessources path and war package.

(a.p.xxx, a.d.xxx, a.xxx)

e.g.:

• app.a.d.css => main css file in development and this file will be included to output directory.
• app.a.p.js => main js file in production and this file will be included to output directory.
• app-part.less => not parsed if not import in any "a" file.

Usages

start in development:

development:start

start in production:

production:start

stop in development:

development:stop

stop in production:

production:stop

dst and pst will do a stop and a start.

compile css manually:

xxmode:less

compile js manually:

xxmode:js

clean output:

xxmode:clean
to clean only css xxmode:less::clean
to clean only js xxmode:js::clean

Alias

already set in .sbtrc

alias dst=;development:stop;development:start
alias pst=;production:stop;production:start
alias dsl= ;development:stop;~development:start
alias psl= ;production:stop;~production:start
alias dstop=development:stop
alias dstart=development:start
alias dc = development:compile
alias pstop=production:stop
alias pstart=production:start
alias pc = production:compile
alias dclean=development:clean
alias pclean=production:clean
alias djclean=development:js::clean
alias dlclean=development:less::clean

Recommendation

make a clean before swapping modes.

For more details on sbt-plugins, refer to sbt-plugins Readme.

To go further, I recommend you mix this project with the lift-mongo.g8 produced by Tim Nelson.

Authors

based on https://github.com/lift/lift_25_sbt

Thanks to lift Team and sbt-plugins Team.

Alexandre Richonnier Heirko

used in Primimo - geotagged real estate ads

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