[aerogear-dev] Custom JS Builder

[Lucas Holmquist]

so i was thinking something like this for the site

http://blog.lholmquist.org/img/custom_web.png

not finished yet,  but close
On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1
> 
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> +1 to that,  i think as long as we say on the client side what "version" it is, would should be fine
>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I thought about this more and I think manually updating the source files is not a bad thing. We only want the builder to build the current release, right? We don't want it building from master so I think only updating when we do a release is ideal. We could also probably set up something in our CI to watch for new tags and automate that source file update as part of our release which would be cool.
>>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> from this gist:https://gist.github.com/4485018
>>>> 
>>>> Custom Aerogear.js Builder
>>>> Prototype here: http://aerogearjsbuilder-lholmqui.rhcloud.com/
>>>> 
>>>> myrepo: git at github.com:lholmquist/aerogearjsbuilder.git
>>>> 
>>>> There is still a couple of minor tweaks that i need, like better error handling and CORS support possible. although it uses an iframe, so maybe not
>>>> 
>>>> This is the way it works.
>>>> 
>>>> client side
>>>> 
>>>> once you submit, the code builds the query params, then sends it to the server( duh ) using an iframe( atm )
>>>> 
>>>> Server side
>>>> 
>>>> Server side is a node.js server running on option shift
>>>> 
>>>> There is a "base" grunt.js file that has "markers" for the src and destination, This gets read in, replacements are made and then saved( customhash.js ) to a temporary directory( date in millis ). Then a node child proccess, runs grunt using this new custom grunt file, while overiding the "base", where the src files are, and the "config", where the custom grunt file is
>>>> 
>>>> once grunt is finished creating the files, the server then zips them up and sends that back to the client.
>>>> 
>>>> and then deletes the temporary directory
>>>> 
>>>> Src File Storage
>>>> 
>>>> The src files are currently stored in the OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR, this is used for persistent storage and doesn't get recreated after every build.
>>>> 
>>>> Currently i need to ssh on to the server and do a git pull to update the repo in this directory.
>>>> 
>>>> Not really sure if there is a better way, perhaps a cron, or something.
>>>> 
>>>> Originally i had the src files in the project itself, but then moved them out to this persistent directory.
>>>> 
>>>> Another idea could when the user does a submit to get the file, it checks to see if the repo is up to date, then if not, updates it. Probably have a time aspect to it, so it only does it everyday for instance
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> looking for idea's here for the src files
>>>> 
>>>> -luke
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