ajorkowski/nodeassets

Asset Manager for .net that has live css updates using SignalR and can optionally leverage NodeJS compilers

nodeassets's Issues

Provide TypeScript option instead of CoffeeScript

Rather than using CoffeeScript, would prefer it uses TypeScript.

Requirejs support

Want to somehow integrate with the requirejs optimiser. I find with new projects that I am leaving out node assets (and all its benefits of runtime updates) so that I can use requirejs properly.

Compilers add too many junk packages

Right now I have a whole bunch of packages associated to the core node assets project due to compiler dependencies. I think the best idea is to move them out and people can add them as needed.

Add file suffixes enum

It would be neater and more convenient if CompilerFor took a file suffix enum, so rather than specifying ".js", etc. we can simply pick from list of predefined standard suffixes.

Option to generate source map

It should be possible to set a bool on the NodeAssets config which has it spit out source map files which are accessible to the browser.

Easy way to detect file change, and not have the event fire more than once.

I just implemented a really simple Hub to do live reloading of css, I think I had the same issue as you with the file changed event being fired more than once! You could probably simplify your code and get rid of the hashing code which will speed it up too :)

[HubName("cssWatcher")]
public class CssWatcher : Hub
{
  public static void Init()
  {
    var cssPath = Path.Combine(HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath, "stylesheets");
    var fsw = new FileSystemWatcher(cssPath)
    {
      Filter = "*.css", 
      IncludeSubdirectories = false
    };
    fsw.Changed += (sender, args) => OnCssFileChanged(args.FullPath);
    fsw.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
  }

  public string Ping()
  {
    return "Pong";
  }

  private static Hashtable fileWriteTime = new Hashtable();

  private static void OnCssFileChanged(string fullPath)
  {
    try
    {
      var currentLastWriteTime = File.GetLastWriteTime(fullPath).ToString();
      if (fileWriteTime.ContainsKey(fullPath) && fileWriteTime[fullPath].ToString() == currentLastWriteTime) 
        return;

      var instance = GlobalHost.ConnectionManager.GetHubContext<CssWatcher>();
      instance.Clients.reload();
      fileWriteTime[fullPath] = currentLastWriteTime;
    }
    catch
    {
    }
  }
}