What is assets-expander?
Assets-expander is a node.js library that turns a glob-like declarations from YAML file into a list of files. Just see below for examples.
Usage
How to install assets-expander?
npm install assets-expander
How to user assets-expander?
var AssetsExpander = require('assets-expander');
var expander = new AssetsExpander('assets.yml', { root: 'path/to/public/dir' });
expander.processGroup('javascripts', 'public') // gets a flat list of assets in public group
How to define assets.yml file?
Just go with something like:
javascripts:
public:
vendor: 'undescore,modernizr'
public: '**/*'
stylesheets:
public:
- 'reset,shared,base,home'
Then if you have the following directory structure:
javascripts
- vendor
- underscore.js
- modernizr.js
- public
- main.js
- fallback.js
stylesheets
- reset.css
- shared.css
- base.css
- home.css
then running the following code will give you the files you need:
> expander.processGroup('stylesheets', 'public')
> ['stylesheets/reset.css', 'stylesheets/shared.css', 'stylesheets/base.css', 'stylesheets/home.css']
> expander.processGroup('javascripts', 'public')
> ['javascripts/vendor/underscore.js', 'javascripts/vendor/modernizr.js', 'javascripts/public/main.js', 'javascripts/public/fallback.js']
License
Assets-expander is released under the MIT license.