Making Symfony 2 Assetic development comfortable
I'm looking for ways to make Symfony 2 Assetic 1.0.2 development easier. I use Assetic for dumping/publishing my assets.
Currently I keep running this command in the background:
php app/console assetic:dump --watch
It helps a lot, every change I make to JS or CSS files will automatically get dumped to the public directory where the resources are fetched from by the browser.
However, I have issues with this:
If I add a new CSS/JS file, for some reason it does not get dumped. I need to stop the watch, clear the cache and initiate the watch again.
It is kind of slow, eats 5%-20% CPU time constantly.
Is there an alternative to development with Assetic? I already tried the approach of serving the resources through a controller (use_controller: true for Assetic), but it was even slower (because let's face the fact, PHP is not for serving static data).
Answer
For me, this is the fastest way to develop with Assetic I could find. I tried and I tried to find a better workflow to enhance speed of asset generation, but found none.
There is some work in the master branch of Symfony2 on a ResourceWatcher component which could possibly helps on this issue by:
- Speeding up the watching process by relying on native resource watcher like
inotify - Fixing problem when resources are added/removed so they are dumped correctly.
You can watch progress on the component in this PR.
Hope someone will provide some tricks to speed up development with assetic or a completely different workflow.
Regards,
Matt