How to avoid minification of JS files in linemanjs

Question

Following is the lineman - config file - http://pastebin.com/ZuNzDY8S application file - http://pastebin.com/rSPdeSME

Now whenever I am running the command lineman run I am getting app.js | vendor.js | plugin.js js files into my generated folder as expected.

So in the index.html file I am getting -

  <script src="/js/vendor.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="/js/app.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="/js/plugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now few Files I do not want to minify and merged into one, but the problem is can not refer the vendor files via -

<script src="vendor/plugin/myjsfile.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which is also reasonable as the html is now in generated folder.

So what do I need to do in my config file to avoid few file compressions and how to reference those vendor files in my layout/template files ?

Answer 1

I was with the same problem. I had to leave modernizr.js out of app.js . There is a special folder called "static". One under "app" and another one under "vendor". Everything you put there gets untouched. I just created a folder "vendor/static/js" and put modernizr.js there. In my page, just reference it as "js/modernizr.js".

I hope this helps you. Guilherme (6qat).

Answer 2

linemanjs is using grunt tasks for the minification, to avoid this you can simply check the application config and comment it if you don't want it to happen.

FYI - I was not aware of grunt tasks at the time of question.