Pluggable JS processing

Last updated on

6 October 2020

What is being done in Drupal 7

Current Drupal JS Workflow (2).png

Assetic

What is Assetic?

Assetic is an asset management framework for PHP. It loads, processes with filters and dumps asset files as JS and CSS files. More info can be found at https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic/ and a presentation is available at http://symfony.com/video/Paris2011/571

Advantages of getting Assetic into Drupal

Assetic comes with a number of filters that allow to process files to convert them to CSS or JS and to compress and optimize them, here the most interesting:

Filter	Requires	Related module	What it does
Google closure compiler	Web API or JAR	Closure compiler	JS optimisation
Sass	sass binary	Sass	convert Sass to CSS
YUI compressor	YUI jar	N/A	compress JS and CSS
CSSEmbed	jar	CSS Embedded image	embed images in CSS
Compass	compass binary	Compass	load compass files
Lessphp	lessphp library	Less	convert LESS files to CSS