@micha: have you seen this before? https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_daemon.html

i wonder how they handled the cwd problem

what’s a way to get images into your output ./target with boot such that I can reference them via url(‘images/foo.png’) in css? is it as simple as sift :move?

@lwhorton: the target task is what writes files to a directory in the filesystem

but that's not usually what you really need

like when you're developing you're probably running some knd of jetty server

locally

the target directory isn't good for that, it's better to serve files from the classpath in dev

and when you deploy you're probably not deploying to your own machine, you're probably making an uberjar or war file or pushing things to s3

the sift task will move things around in the fileset, and correspondingly in the classpath

because the fileset determines the classpath

so locally I can just make sure i’m serving images/ from wherever, but how do I package up that dir later to ensure it’s included?

included in what is the question 🙂

how do you deploy to production?

tomcat? uberjar? static site on s3?

lets just assume I use a boot task to bunlde everything into the standard main.js and main.out dirs, then those two files are served from some s3 bucket

i suppose just sifting images/* into __ would do it, i’m just not sure what _ should be

what is the path to the .cljs.edn file in the fileset?

or perhaps it’s wiser to include images/ as a resource-path instead, but because it’s css referencing there’s nothing in the cljs compiler that would ever touch that resource

you want to have the images directory in the same folder as the .cljs.edn file

actually no

in the same folder as your html file

so you can refer to it with a relative URL

so you can ues the sift task to do that

aha - i think that’s the key

my real case is a bit more complex, where my images are stored … elsewhere

that is actually a simpler case

and it's what you end up doing anyway in produciton of course, because cdn etc

project/images project/clj/ { the whole cljs project } project/clj/build.boot

in that case the images are separate from the application

so you can deploy them separately

so a sift :move #{“../images” “resources/“} ?

it's doing replaceAll in there

so you will need to use references in the substitution

sift task takes a map of regex -> str

you can see this in the (doc sift) in the repl

like this

(sift :move {#"^.*/images/(.*)$" "resources/$1"})

not sure what the .. was in your example?

sorry didn’t realize it was a regex

im digging aroudn the docs/impl to figure this out, thanks for the great pointer