Re: Replacing Bower with "guix environment"

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

>  - The "hip new way" of doing things is to use Bower.  Bower is a
>    package manager, but it's made specifically for static assets served
>    to the user, such as css files, fonts, javascript like jquery, etc.
>    Bower also puts these in an extlib/ or whatever, but it puts them in
>    that place *for* you.

Interesting.

(Thinking out lout.)

Just like ‘guix system vm’ returns a script that runs QEMU with the
right arguments, one could imagine generating a script that copies
dependencies in the right place maybe?

  (define (make-installer assets)
    (gexp->script "copy-assets"
                  #~(begin
                      (for-each copy-file '#$@assets)
                      ...)))

(This could/should be turned into a package object so that adding it as
an input would drop it in $PATH.)

The developer would have to explicitly run that script to have the files
copied under extlib/.

Alternately one could generate a script that directly runs some http
server with the right parameters so that it finds CSS files, JS files,
etc.

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.