Deploy Portlet Projects

[crisp2u]

Hi, any idea if this should work also on the static js content coming from a portlet in a portlet project ? I tried to add a new task to copy also js files from portlets but liferay somehow caches them.

[emiloberg]

I'd very much recommend using JRebel for that kind of stuff. It has a price tag but it's really worth it.

However. To answer your question: Maybe, I don't really know. You might want to try this:

First, make sure your portal-ext.properties has all the "developer settings" to make sure you cache as little as possible. Copy something along these lines into your portal-ext.properties.

theme.css.fast.load=false
theme.images.fast.load=false
javascript.fast.load=false
javascript.log.enabled=false
layout.template.cache.enabled=false
browser.launcher.url=
freemarker.engine.cache.storage=soft:1
freemarker.engine.modification.check.interval=0
openoffice.cache.enabled=false
velocity.engine.resource.manager.cache.enabled=false
com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.cache.CacheFilter=false
com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.themepreview.ThemePreviewFilter=true
yui.compressor.js.verbose=true
yui.compressor.css.line.break=1
velocity.engine.restricted.classes=
velocity.engine.restricted.variables=
freemarker.engine.restricted.classes=
freemarker.engine.restricted.variables=

If that's not working. You might want to touch (or any other way) update the portlet's WEB-INF/web.xml to trigger a redeploy. Try doing a change, copy the files to the server and then edit the web.xml on the server (just change some non-breaking value) and see if that triggers a redeploy. If so, then you can modify the

It's pretty much what this script is doing when you're changing a scss file - it updates the custom.css so that Liferay understands that it has changed. See: https://github.com/emiloberg/Liferay-Instant-Deploy-Theme-Changes-Gulp-Script/blob/master/gulpfile.js#L44-L49

But as said: JRebel is the way to go. Not waiting for redeploys will get you those $365 back in no time. (Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with JRebel in any way, actually not using it myself as I don't do portlet programming. However, all my "real" ;) programmers are.)

[emiloberg]

Closing because of inactivity.

[crisp2u]

Thanks, I'm using it myself, but I was trying to find a solution for other front-end guys that we have working with liferay :-) Especially that most of them don't use "real" Java IDEs :-)