Commit aa30d97c authored by JC Brand's avatar JC Brand

Update build documentation to mention `make watch`

parent dfcc1d97
......@@ -23,36 +23,32 @@ Generating builds
Creating JavaScript and CSS bundles and distribution files
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Converse uses `webpack <https://webpack.js.org/>`_ to create single build files containing the core code and
all of the 3rd party dependencies.
Converse uses `webpack <https://webpack.js.org/>`_ to create bundles containing the
core JavaScript code and all of the 3rd party dependencies.
These files are in the `dist <https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/tree/master/dist>`_ directory.
Similarly, we use `Sass <http://sass-lang.com/>`_ to generate the CSS bundle
from ``.scss`` files in the ``sass`` directory.
Before you start changing the core code, you can run ``make watchjs`` in your terminal.
The generated JavaScript bundles are contained in the `dist <https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/tree/master/dist>`_ directory
and the generated CSS bundles in the `css <https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/tree/master/css>`_ directory.
This command will listen for any changed files and then automatically create a
new build of ``dist/converse.js``.
To generate a prticular bundle, for example the minified file ``converse.min.js``, you can run ``make dist/converse.min.js``.
This is also true for any of the other bundle files.
The CSS files are also generated, from the scss files in the
`sass <https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js/tree/master/sass>`_ directory.
To generate all CSS and JavaScript bundles, you can run ``make dist``.
Similarly to ``make watchjs``, you can run ``make watch`` to automatically
generate the css files in the ``./css/`` directory.
When you're developing, and constantly changing code, you can run ``make watch``
to let the bundles be automatically generated as soon as you edit a file.
The Converse repository does not include the minified files in the ``dist`` or
``css`` directories. Before deployment, you'll want to generate them yourself.
To do so, run the following:
To only generate the minified files, you can make them individually.
::
make dist/converse.min.js
make css/converse.min.css
Alternatively, if you want to generate ALL the bundles files (minified and
unminified), then you can also run::
make dist
Creating custom bundles
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......@@ -111,8 +107,3 @@ maintaining a roster, chats and messages.
The file `src/headless.js <https://github.com/jcbrand/converse.js/blob/master/src/headless.js>`_
is used to determine which plugins are included in the build.
.. Note:: Unfortunately it's currently not yet possible to include Multi-user chat (MUC)
functionality in the headless build. This is because both the UI and core
functionality is still contained in one plugin and would first need to be
split up into two parts, with the UI part dropped for this build.
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