Laravel4 Google Closure Compiler

This Laravel4 package adds a view-helper javascript_compiled() to minimize a single javascript file or bundles of several javascript files. Everything is done using Google Closure Compiler.

Installation

Install it via Composer by adding the following to your composer.json-file (the asterix can be changed to an exact version):

"jboysen/laravel-gcc": "1.*"

NOTE: if you get this error: zendframework/zend-http dev-master requires zendframework/zend-stdlib dev-master -> no matching package found., you might have got this error..

...and add the following to the providers-array in your app/config/app.php:

'Jboysen\LaravelGcc\LaravelGccServiceProvider',

Configuration

The config-file is self-explanatory: config.php

To change some of the settings, simply just run (as always) php artisan config:publish jboysen/laravel-gcc

Usage

View helper

The helper accepts either a string representing a single javascript file or an array representing several files (a bundle). A bundle will be compiled in the order given in the array.

Example #1:

// hello.blade.php
...
{{ javascript_compiled('default.js') }}

Example #2:

// hello.php
...
<?php echo javascript_compiled(array(
  'jquery.js',
  'default.js'
  )); ?>
  

This helper will:

1. Lookup the files given as argument to the helper.
2. Create a unique filename for the compiled files based on the filenames and the last modification time of the files.
3. Compile the bundle (if it's not present).
4. Output a script-tag linking to the compiled file.

artisan commands

gcc:build

As compilation of several files sometimes can take time, it is better to do this "offline", that is before any users hit the web application.

php artisan gcc:build

This command will scan all files in the /app/views-directory and find all uses of the view-helper described above, and compile the bundles immediately, making sure the users won't experience any long response times.

gcc:clean

Remove all files from the /app/storage/laravel-gcc-folder. This task might be useful in deployment-procedures.