Magento 2 Frontools

Set of front-end tools for Magento 2, based on Gulp.js

Questions

If you have any questions about this project let's go to offical Magento forum - Less to Sass Community Project

LESS themes support

LESS support was dropped in version 1.0.0. Feel free to use an older version (0.11.4 and lower) or create a fork and customize newer versions to fit your needs.

NPM and Yarn support

Up from version 1.0.0 we are supporting both Node.js packages managers. If you want to keep modules in safe versions all the time, use Yarn, yarn.lock is already added to the repository.

Requirements

• Node.js LTS version (v6 branch). We recommend to use avn to automate version switching. Required configuration is already added to repository as .node-version file.
• Gulp CLI global package - npm install -g gulp-cli or yarn global add gulp-cli
• Magento 2 project with SASS based theme i.e. SASS version of "Blank"

Installation

1. Run composer require snowdog/frontools
2. Go to package directory cd vendor/snowdog/frontools
3. Run yarn or npm install
4. Decide where you want to keep your config files. You can store them in Frontools config directory or in dev/tools/frontools/config. There is a gulp setup task to copy all sample config files from the config to dev/tools/frontools/config and create a convenient symlink tools in the project root. If you want to keep config files inside frontools config dir, you have to handle this manually.
5. Define your themes in themes.json.

themes.json structure

Check config/themes.json.sample to get samples.

• src - full path to theme
• dest - full path to pub/static/[theme_area]/[theme_vendor]/[theme_name]
• locale - array of available locales
• localeOverwrites - (default false) set to true if you want to overwrite some styles for specifilc language. Remember that path to overwriting file has to be same as base file after removing /i18n/{lang_code}.
• parent - name of parent theme
• stylesDir - (default styles) path to styles directory. For theme-blank-sass it's styles. By default Magento 2 use web/css.
• postcss - (deafult ["plugins.autoprefixer()"]) PostCSS plugins config. Have to be an array.
• modules - list of modules witch you want to map inside your theme
• ignore - array of ignore patterns

Optional configurations for 3rd party plugins

You will find sample config files for theses plugins in vendor/snowdog/frontools/config directory.

• Create browserSync configuration
• Create eslint configuration
• Create sass-lint configuration
• Create stylelint configuration

Tasks list

• babel - Run Babel, a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --prod - Production output - minifies and uglyfy code.
• browser-sync - Run browserSync.
• clean - Removes /pub/static directory content.
• csslint - Run stylelint based tests.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --ci - Enable throwing errors. Useful in CI/CD pipelines.
• default - type gulp to see this readme in console.
• deploy - Symlink or copy all static assets to pub/static. Runs clean and inheritance tasks.
  • --theme name - Specify theme to deploy.
  • --prod - Copy files instead of making symlinks.
• dev - Runs browser-sync, inheritance and watch tasks.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --disableLinting - Disable SASS and CSS linting.
  • --disableMaps - Toggles source maps generation.
• eslint - Watch and run eslint on specified JS file.
  • --file fileName - You have to specify what file you want to lint, fileName without .js.
• inheritance - Create necessary symlinks to resolve theme styles inheritance and make the base for styles processing. You have to run in before styles compilation and after adding new files.
• sasslint - Run sass-lint based tests.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --ci - Enable throwing errors. Useful in CI/CD pipelines.
• setup - Creates a convenient symlink from /tools to /vendor/snowdog/frontools and copies all sample files if no configuration exists.
  • --symlink name - If you don't want to use tools as the symlink you can specify another name.
• styles - Use this task to manually trigger styles processing pipeline.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --disableMaps - Toggles source maps generation.
  • --prod - Production output - minifies styles and add .min sufix.
  • --ci - Enable throwing errors. Useful in CI/CD pipelines.
• watch - Watch for style changes and run processing tasks.
  • --theme name - Process single theme.
  • --disableLinting - Disable SASS and CSS linting.
  • --disableMaps - Enable inline source maps generation.