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@dojo/cli-build-widget

The official CLI command for building Dojo 2 custom elements.

WARNING This is currently alpha software. This is not yet production ready, so you should use at your own risk.

Usage

To use @dojo/cli-build-widget in a single project, install the package:

npm install @dojo/cli-build-widget

Features

@dojo/cli-build-widget is an optional command for the @dojo/cli.

Project Structure

A custom elements project is expected to have the following directory and file structure:

src/
	custom-element-parent/
		customElementParent.m.css
		CustomElementParent.ts
	custom-element-child/
		customElementChild.m.css
		CustomElementChild.ts
	index.html
tests/
	unit/
	functional/
.dojorc

The index.html file is meant to be used as an example page for viewing the custom element in a browser. The generated JavaScript and CSS files for each widget will be injected into the index.html file in the order specified in the .dojorc (see below).

Building

There are three modes available to build Dojo 2 custom elements: dist, dev and test. The mode required can be passed using the --mode flag:

dojo build widget --mode dist

The built custom element files are written to the output/{mode selected} directory. The output mirrors the src directory, so if a custom element is located at src/custom-element/CustomElement.s, the built element will be output to output/{mode}/custom-element/CustomElement.js.

Note: dist is the default mode and so can be run without any arguments, dojo build widget.

Dist Mode

The dist mode creates a production ready build.

Dev mode

The dev mode creates a build that has been optimized for debugging and development.

Test mode

The test mode creates bundles that can be used to run the unit and functional tests for the custom element(s).

Serving An Example Page

A web server can be started with the --serve flag. By default, the build is served on port 9999, but this can be changed with the --port (-p) flag:

# build once and then serve on port 3000
dojo build -s -p 3000

Watching

Building with the --watch option observes the file system for changes, and recompiles to the appropriate output/{dist|dev|test} directory, depending on the current --mode. When used in the conjunction with the --serve option and --mode=dev, --watch=memory can be specified to enable automatic browser updates and hot module replacement (HMR).

dojo build -w # start a file-based watch
dojo build -s -w=memory -m=dev # build to an in-memory file system with HMR

Eject

Ejecting @dojo/cli-build-widget will produce the following files under the config/build-widget directory:

build-options.json: the build-specific config options removed from the .dojorc
ejected.config.js: the root webpack config that passes the build options to the appropriate mode-specific config based on the --env.mode flag's value.
base.config.js: a common configuration used by the mode-specific configs.
dev.config.js: the configuration used during development.
dist.config.js: the production configuration.
test.config.js: the configuration used when running tests.

As already noted, the dojorc's build-widget options are moved to config/build-widget/build-options.json after ejecting. Further, the modes are specified using webpack's env flag (e.g., --env.mode=dev), defaulting to dist. You can run a build using webpack with:

node_modules/.bin/webpack --config=config/build-widget/ejected.config.js --env.mode={dev|dist|test}

Configuration

Custom element projects use a .dojorc file at the project root to control various aspects of development such as testing and building. This file is required to build custom elements, it MUST be valid JSON, and it MUST provide at least an elements array with the custom element paths. All other values are options. The following options can be used beneath the "build-widget" key:

`elements`: string[]

Contains paths relative to the project root to the custom elements that should be built. As noted above, the generated JS and CSS will be injected into the src/index.html in the order specified in the elements array. For example, with the following configuration the custom elements located at src/menu-item/MenuItem.ts and src/menu/Menu.ts will be built to output/{mode}/menu-item/MenuItem.js and output/{mode}/menu/Menu.js, respectively:

{
	"build-widget": {
		"elements": [
			"src/menu-item/MenuItem",
			"src/menu/Menu"
		]
	}
}

`bundles`: object

Useful for breaking a build into smaller bundles, the bundles option is a map of webpack bundle names to arrays of modules that should be bundled together. For example, with the following configuration both src/Foo and src/Bar will be grouped in the foo.[hash].js bundle:

{
	"build-widget": {
		"bundles": {
			"foo": [
				"src/Foo",
				"src/Bar"
			]
		}
	}
}

`features`: object

A map of has features to boolean flags that can be used when building in dist mode to remove unneeded imports or conditional branches. See the static-build-loader documentation for more information.

How do I contribute?

We appreciate your interest! Please see the Dojo 2 Meta Repository for the Contributing Guidelines. This repository uses prettier for code style and is configured with a pre-commit hook to automatically fix formatting issues on staged .ts files before performing the commit.

Installation

To start working with this package, clone the repository and run npm install.

In order to build the project run grunt dev or grunt dist.

Scripts

test

Builds a new test artifact from the repository source code and re-installs the test-app dependencies before running all unit and functional tests.

build-test-artifact

Builds and packages cli-build-widget as dojo-cli-build-widget.tgz in the dist directory.

generate-fixtures

Re-generates the test fixtures in test-app. Assumes that the dependencies have been installed for the test project.

prettier

Runs prettier on all .ts files in the src and tests directories, this will fix any detected code style violations.

test-release

Generates a test release tarball that can be used as a drop-in dependency for testing changes with a custom elements project. WARNING This modifies package-lock.json, so be careful to undo the changes (git checkout -- package-lock.json) after running this script. See Workflow for custom package releases for more information.

Testing

Test cases MUST be written using Intern using the BDD test interface and Assert assertion interface.

90% branch coverage MUST be provided for all code submitted to this repository, as reported by istanbul’s combined coverage results for all supported platforms.

The command is tested by running via the Dojo CLI and asserting the build output against known fixtures. To do this, a test artifact needs to be built and installed into the test-app: