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matthodan edited this page Nov 25, 2012
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Jekyll Asset Pipeline is a powerful asset pipeline that automatically collects, converts and compresses your site's JavaScript and CSS assets when you compile your Jekyll site.
- Declarative dependency management via asset manifests
- Asset preprocessing/conversion (supports CoffeeScript, Sass/Scss, Less, Erb, etc.)
- Asset compression (supports YUI Compressor, Closure Compiler, etc.)
- Fingerprints bundled asset filenames with MD5 hashes for better browser caching
- Automatic generation of HTML "link" and "script" tags that point to bundled assets
- Integrates seamlessly into Jekyll's workflow, including auto site regeneration
You can contribute to the Jekyll Asset Pipeline by submitting a pull request via GitHub. I have identified the following areas for improvement:
- Tests, tests, tests. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't write a single test while building Jekyll Asset Pipeline. This started as a hack for my blog and quickly grew into a library as I tweaked it to support my own needs.
- Handle remote assets. Right now, Jekyll Asset Pipeline does not provide any way to include remote assets in bundles unless you save them locally before generating your site. Moshen's Jekyll Asset Bundler allows you to include remote assets, which I thought was pretty interesting. That said, I think it is generally better to keep remote assets separate so that they load asynchronously.
- Successive preprocessing. Currently you can only preprocess a file once. It would be better if you could run an asset through multiple preprocessors before it gets compressed and bundled.
Feel free to message me on Twitter or Facebook.
As I was building Jekyll Asset Pipeline, I came across a number of tools that I was able to draw inspiration and best practices from, but one stood out in particular... I have to give credit to Moshen for creating the Jekyll Asset Bundler.
I also have to give credit to Mojombo for creating Jekyll in the first place.
Jekyll Asset Pipeline is released under the MIT License.