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I am unaware of any pain points at this time. There were initial issues around the need to run the watch command for Webpack, but improved communication/documentation has resolved those issues.
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For edx-platform, I have comprehensive theming enabled and all white label themes (edx-themes) installed. A full update_assets is much too slow, so I use more targeted commands:
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Full rebuild when switching branches:
paver devstack lms (or studio)
Compile a single theme:
paver compile_sass --theme-dirs=/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/themes --themes=edx.org
Update all assets on a sandbox:
sudo /edx/bin/edxapp-update-assets-cms; sudo /edx/bin/edxapp-update-assets-lms; sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart edxapp: |
Here are some challenges I have with assets:
- the various watchers don't understand themes so don't recompile when they are changed
- Paver doesn't have access to Django configuration settings so you have to pass
--theme-dirsevery time - Karma tests are now cached so in debug mode I need to restart the whole test run on each change
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