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build(improvements) #602

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This PR updates the build pipeline to improve a few things:

  • Tweak husky config
  • Drop webpack as a requirement
  • Improvements for reloading in dev

Husky

The change to the husky config prevents double-prompting which occurs when git commit is aliased to git cz.

Drop Webpack

Previously there were 3 build tools 11ty, gulp, and webpack. With gulp handling the build & dist bundle of the package, 11ty handling the docs templates and webpack handling the docs site assets.

Webpack was mostly being used solely for copying files - which seems slightly overkill. Also using 3 tools was slow, and due to the parallel nature of the task would often result in multiple reloads. So this PR moves the tasks done by webpack to 11ty and gulp.

Dev reloading

Previously, changes to the src/component files would not be watched and picked up in the dev site, making local dev a bit slow.

This PR adds the ability to pass an ENV='dev' environment variable to 11ty, which modifies the nunjucks environment to look in the src/ directory for nunjucks templates. Allowing for 11ty to rebuild when a change is made to them.

The changes in this PR mean that now 11ty is responsible for watching and building the docs site assets, and gulp now has the build:docs task to copy the assets required for the site, and the watch:package task to watch for changes in the component scss and js files.

In order to achieve this, the assets directory has been moved within the docs directory, to place it within 11ty's watch scope.

Gulp does not copy across the all.js file from src, 11ty is configured to watch the all.js file. When gulp builds the package files, generating all.js this triggers an 11ty rebuild.

This means that now, any change to any .njk, .md, .js or .scss file will trigger a fast rebuild and reload of the site in dev.

…in development

By default the nunjucks environment loads components from the ./package directory.  This means
changes to a component won't be loaded in development.  This PR updates the nunjucks environment to
load from the ./src directoy when the ENV var is det to dev
When aliasing git commit to git cz alongside the pre-commit-hook would cause the interactive prompt
to run twice.  This Pr updates the pre-commit-hook to only run if a commit message has not already
been provided
… src directory

Documentation examples by default load components from the built /package directory.  This PR adds
the ability to pass an ENV='dev' flag to the eleventy command to enable loading of components direct
from the /src directory. This also adds a gulp watcher to rebuild the package css and js files
during development.

This needs further work! We have three file watchers running in parallel to build/rebuild the
docs site in development. (11ty, webpack, and gulp) It would be good if we could use just one!
@chrispymm chrispymm requested a review from a team as a code owner July 4, 2024 14:21
We were using 3 build tools in combination: 11ty, webpack, and gulp.  This was overly complex, a bit
unnecessary, and was slow.  Webpack was only really being used to copy files - which can very easily
eb done by gulp. This PR removes the webpack dependency and pipeline in favour of gulp. the pipeline
is now setup such that any changes in dev for a component will trigger a rebuild of the assets and
the 11ty docs making working on a component much faster as changes to both nunjucks templates and
js/scss files trigger a reload in the browser.
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🎉 This PR is included in version 2.2.0 🎉

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