inveno-assets

Media assets management for Invenio.

This module is based on Flask-Assets and Flask-Collect. It adds nodejs support and static files invenio modules collection.

Static Files Collection

In your module or invenio instance you have templates or static files such as images, etc. The collect command will go through all invenio install modules and make symlinks in the Flask instance_dir directory. This directory is to put generated files such as generated assets.

Command Line Interface

my_instance collect -v      # collect static files from modules

CSS and Javascript

This module is able to use scss and requirejs (use of nodejs in the frontend).

NodeJS

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Usually used in the backend it is possible to use it to the frontend using special filters.

Entrypoints

# setup.py
setup(
    entry_points={
        'invenio_assets.bundles': [
            'mycssbundle = my_instance.bundles:mycssbundle',
            'myjsbundle = my_instance.bundles:myjsbundle'
        ]
    }
)

Assets

from invenio_assets import NpmBundle
mycssbundle = NpmBundle(
    filters='scss, cleancss',
    output='mycssbundle.css',
    npm={
        'almond': '~0.3.1',
        'bootstrap-sass': '~3.3.5',
        'font-awesome': '~4.4.0',
    }
)

Using it in Templates

{% assets "mycssbundle" %}<link href="{{ ASSET_URL }}" rel="stylesheet">{% endassets %}
{% assets "myjsbundle" %}<script src="{{ ASSET_URL }}"></script>{% endassets %}

Command Line Interface

my_instance npm             # create the list of nodejs module to install
                            # it will create a packages.json file in the instance_dir/static
                            # go to this dir and run 'npm install' to install js packages

my_instance assets build    # compile css and js this will create files in the
                            # instance_dir/static/gen directory

References

1. Official Documentation